Suspect raids bedroom takes phone and vape then returns to break phone

1Burglary suspect wanted after pocketknife robbery at Wyoming Street home

Wilkes-Barre, PA — A forced entry late Tuesday night turned into a brief but frightening home invasion when a man armed with a pocketknife burst into an upstairs bedroom, threatened two residents and walked off with a cell phone and a vape before returning to smash the stolen phone against a wall and flee again.

Officers were called to a Wyoming Street residence at 10:29 p.m. after the victims reported hearing a loud noise below and then seeing a man enter their bedroom brandishing a pocketknife and waving it in a threatening manner. The defendant reportedly took a cell phone and a vape, left the home, then returned shortly afterward and deliberately broke the phone before leaving the area once more.

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