Crash and Grab? After Their Accident He Snatched Her Cell, Police Say
A Fridley man knocked away a woman's phone as she tried to call police about their two-vehicle crash at a Brooklyn Center Pizza Hut—and then he fled the scene with it, according to prosecutors.
A Fridley man has been charged with knocking a cell phone out of the hands of a woman and then stealing it after she tried to call the police to report an accident. Derren Deshon Henderson, 22, is charged with theft from person, a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Brooklyn Center police were called to the parking lot of a Pizza Hut restaurant just after 7 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2012, to investigate a two-vehicle accident, according to the criminal complaint, signed by Brooklyn Center Police Detective Corinne Becker. According to the complaint: Officers met with the victim and two witnesses. The victim said she and a man, later identified as Henderson, got into a car accident in the Pizza Hut parking lot. …
