Alert Western Salisbury Residents Report Bixler's Robbers' Get-Away Car

The FBI is now assisting the police investigation of the Dec. 28 armed robbery at Bixler's jewelry store.

Bixler's Robbery Get-Away Car Dumped in Salisbury

South Whitehall Police report the FBI is now assisting their investigation of the Dec. 28 armed robbery.

The car driven by three armed robbers leaving Bixler's Jewelers Friday, Dec. 28, was found Sunday in a residential Salisbury Township neighborhood, according to South Whitehall Police Investigator Jerome Cramer. It is the only new information Cramer had to report about a "sophisticated" crime unlike any he's ever investigated. The jewelry store robbery was actually the second stage of a crime that started at the Bethlehem home of a longtime Bixler's employee. In its weekend crime summary, Bethlehem Police said a man and woman were robbed by armed gunmen at 1946 Kenny Drive and that the incident was being investigated jointly by Bethlehem and South Whitehall Township detectives.  The masked suspects broke through a back door, held a gun to…

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