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Unkempt man sought in Center City bank heist The FBI is looking for a man who was wearing sunglasses, a dirty gray suit jacket and dirty white sneakers when he held up the Trumark Financial Credit Union at 1811 John F. Kennedy Blvd. in Center City yesterday.
Unkempt man sought
in Center City bank heist
The FBI is looking for a man who was wearing sunglasses, a dirty gray suit jacket and dirty white sneakers when he held up the Trumark Financial Credit Union at 1811 John F. Kennedy Blvd. in Center City yesterday.
The man also had a large cut over his left eye. He handed a teller a demand note and left with cash and a dye pack. An exploded dye pack was found later in the underground train concourse at 17th and JFK.
The FBI said the robber was a black man in his 30s. He was carrying a rust-colored Aldi shopping bag.
Woman arrested in slaying
in Strawberry Mansion
Police have made an arrest in the Sunday-morning slaying of Valeka Boyd in Strawberry Mansion.
Braetta Deloach, 30, whose address could not be confirmed yesterday, was arrested in the slaying, said Homicide Sgt. Ron McClane. Boyd, 31, was stabbed to death on Ridge Avenue near Glenwood shortly after 3 a.m. after an argument between the two women, McClane said.
Catholic Social Services
hosting peace festival
The annual Summer Peace Festival, sponsored by the North Philadelphia Catholic Coalition, will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Fairhill Park, 4th Street and Lehigh Avenue, to promote peace in the community through song, dance, art and ecumenical prayer.
The event is also the culminating celebration of the 10 Catholic Social Services' Beacon Summer Programs, which served more than 1,500 youth this summer. Cardinal Justin Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia, will speak at the festival, which is open to all faiths and cultural backgrounds.
7 research chimps to get
new digs in Washington state
Burreto, Annie, Foxy, Jamie, Jody, Missy and Negra will be shipped next spring from the Buckshire Corp. laboratory in Perkasie to a new sanctuary for chimpanzees near Cle Elum, Wash.
The seven chimps are being housed in a lab that provides animals for research. They will be the first tenants of Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. The chimps were mostly used for hepatitis B vaccine studies and have no infectious diseases, the sanctuary said.
Capano's brother convicted
of illegal gun possession
Gerard Capano, whose testimony helped prosecutors convict his older brother, Thomas, in one of Delaware's most notorious murder cases, pleaded guilty yesterday in Wilmington to illegal possession of a weapon.
Capano, who is barred from having weapons because of a 1999 felony firearms conviction, pleaded guilty to possessing a muzzle loader. Capano, 43, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 5. In 1999, he admitted helping his brother dispose of the body of Thomas' mistress, Anne Marie Fahey. Thomas Capano is on death row in Delaware. *
- Staff and wire reports
