Holdup of deliveryman causes stir on Drexel campus

No, they weren't filming an action movie around Drexel University's campus yesterday.

It just seemed that way for 2 1/2 hours as police evacuated the school's library while trying to track down a pair of brazen robbers.

The drama began at 4:40 p.m., when a man who was delivering a shipment of chicken wings to a neighborhood restaurant was robbed by the gun-toting crooks on Hanson Street near Spruce, said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.

The thieves fled in a white Infiniti with $6,500 in cash, Walker said. One suspect, however, bolted from the getaway car when it attracted police attention.

Walker said the 21-year-old suspect, whom Walker did not identify, dropped two handguns during a brief foot chase, and was arrested at 34th and Chestnut streets.

His alleged cohort abandoned the Infiniti near 33rd and Market streets and marched into a Drexel library, Walker said. Police evacuated the building for more than an hour while they searched for the suspect, who remained at large last night.

In the middle of all the action, a police cruiser rushing to the library rammed a civilian's car at 34th Street and Haverford Avenue and then skidded into a pole, Walker said. Both drivers suffered minor injuries. *