Police: Robber used infection threat

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January 19, 2012

Anonymous CNHI News Service The Effingham Daily News Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:40 AM CST

SHARON, Pa — A man apparently thought the threat of spreading an infectious disease inside a café would be enough to get a cashier to cough up cash.

Police Chief Mike Menster said the assailant then told the clerk if he didn’t cooperate, he’d touch him and infect him with the antibiotic-resistant MRSA staph infection.

“It’s our first case of robbery by threat of an infectious disease,” Menster said.

Fred L. Parker, 41, told the cashier he had a deadly and highly contagious disease and offered to walk away if the cashier gave him money, police said. The cashier refused, and Parker left. He was arrested a short time later.

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Details for this story were provided by The Sharon (Pa.) Herald.

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