Liberty police probe robbery at Walmart parking lot

LIBERTY — Police are investigating a report of an armed robbery in the parking lot of Walmart on Goldie Road.

Officers met with a 17-year-old Youngstown boy shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday. The teen told police he had posted online about selling second-hand items, but when he, his sister and his sister’s cousin met with the potential buyer in the Walmart parking lot, the person who said who would buy the items instead pulled out a semiautomatic handgun.

The victim said he gave the boy with the gun his Cartier sunglasses, a Louis Vuitton belt and a pendant. A police report estimates the total value of the stolen items at $1,850.

Witnesses said the thief, who had a white male in his passenger seat, left the parking lot in a brownish Oldsmobile and fled westbound on Interstate 80. Police believe the suspect is a 17-year-old Canfield male.