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UPDATE: One Arrested, One Identified in Jewelry Store Robbery

Police are asking for help locating Anthony Burnett, 43.

One of the two men wanted for the March 29 armed robbery of a Main Street jewelry store turned himself into authorities on April 5, and police now say they have identified the second man as well.

A for the arrest of Raheem Hankerson, 30, on the evening of April 1 after police found a wallet containing his identifying information in the getaway car. Hankerson turned himself in at the Northwest Detective Division on Broad Street less than a week after the warrant's issuance.

After Hankerson turned himself in, police identified the second man involved in the robbery as Anthony Burnett, 43. Police said they couldn't elaborate on the means by which Burnett was identified.

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On March 29 at approximately 10:50 a.m., police said that Hankerson and Burnett held up at gunpoint A.I. Poland Jewelers of 4347 Main Street. They struck owner Victor Ostroff in the head with one of the guns and then proceeded to tie up Ostroff and a female employee, before leaving the store on foot with $100,000 worth of jewelry. Hankerson and Burnett then sped off in a getaway car they later abandoned on the 200 block of Kalos Street in Roxborough with the jewelry, and Hankerson's wallet, still inside.

Police spokesman Officer Christine O'Brien said investigators don't think a third party was supposed to pick up the abandoned jewelry.

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"They thought witnesses had identified the getaway car, and they may have just panicked," explained O'Brien of Hankerson and Burnett's curious decision to leave behind the jewels.

O'Brien said she didn't know if all of the stolen jewelry was recovered.

Hankerson is facing charges of aggravated assault, robbery, criminal conspiracy, making terroristic threats, and violating Pennsylvania’s uniform firearms act.

Police are asking anyone with any information as to the whereabouts of Anthony Burnett to contact the Northwest Detective Division at 215-686-3353 or submit a tip anonymously at www.phillypolice.com/forms.

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