Chester Police arrested a man Sunday accused of robbing and raping a coffee shop worker in South Philadelphia, according to the United States Marshal Service.<\/p>\n
Police arrested Christopher Reeves<\/strong>, 32, around 1 p.m. in Chester after receiving a tip.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old victim was working alone inside the Bean Exchange at 7th and Bainbridge streets the morning of March 31 when Reeves <\/strong>told her he was homeless and needed money, according to police.<\/p>\n Investigators say the woman gave Reeves<\/strong> a small amount of money and he left. Reeves<\/strong> returned an hour later and that’s when police say he allegedly stole $173 from her register, forced her into a bathroom and raped her.<\/p>\n Reeves <\/strong>was known to frequent the neighborhood, according to police.<\/p>\n The Bean Exchange’s owner says the arrest brings little relief.<\/p>\n “A little bit of light in a very bleak, dark tunnel won’t make up for anything my employee has suffered…the damage that this has done to her,” Matt Armstrong<\/strong> said. ” The real question is ‘why was he out walking on the streets to begin with?'”<\/p>\n Philadelphia Police offered a $ 7,500 reward Friday for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n Reeves <\/strong>is being held in the Chester City jail. He is expected be transported to Philadelphia Monday.<\/p>\n The coffee shop will re-open for business Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chester Police arrested a man Sunday accused of robbing and raping a coffee shop worker in South Philadelphia, according to the United States Marshal Service. Police arrested Christopher Reeves, 32, around 1 p.m. in Chester after receiving a tip. The 29-year-old victim was working alone inside the Bean Exchange at 7th and Bainbridge streets the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}