“Urban Terrorists” Hold Bar Hostage: Cops

Three masked men robbed Lennon’s Bar in Upper Darby just before 2 a.m. Wednesday, police say

“I classify these guys as urban terrorists,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. "They're bums -- they're thugs."

The “urban terrorists” to which Chitwood is referring are the three masked men that police say held patrons and an employee of Lennon’s Bar on Long Lane in the Stonehurst section of Upper Darby hostage around 1:50 a.m. Wednesday.

Police tell the Delco Daily Times that the suspects ordered the six customers and a bartender to the floor at gunpoint while they robbed the bar.

"The next thing I know I had a gun in my face," the bartender -- who asked not to be identified -- told NBC Philadelphia's Deanna Durante.

The bartender was getting ready to close up when the masked men entered the bar and demanded him to get down on the floor.

The men locked the front door and then immediately zeroed in on a regular sitting at a corner bar stool.

"He puts him down on the floor, puts a gun to his head and gets $250 off of him," Chitwood said. "So they know that this guy every night comes home from work and stops in there to get a drink and if you notice that is the only (patron) they take the money from."

The men likely knew where the money was kept and the robbery was possibly set up by someone who was in the bar often, according to police.

The masked men fled Lennon’s with about $1,000 total. they were in and out in mere minutes.

Luckily no one was hurt.

Police are looking to identify the men, whom they describe as black -- two wearing hooded sweatshirts and jeans and one wearing dark Dickies pants and shirt -- through surveillance video, according to the Delco Daily Times.

Anyone with information is urged to call Upper Darby Police at 610-734-7677.


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