September 22, 2019 at approximately 12:03 a.m., Syracuse Police Officers responded to the 400 block of Erie Boulevard E., the Speedway, for a reported robbery. When Officers arrived they located a 22 year-old female victim, who advised that she had been robbed in the 100 block of Almond Street. The victim also advised that she then followed the suspect to the Speedway.
The victim explained that the suspect forcibly stole $600 dollars and bank cards from her. The suspect then went to the Speedway in an attempt to use the victim’s ATM card at the ATM. Prior to Police arrival, the suspect had been encountered by two good Samaritans, who impeded the suspect’s progress. At one point the suspect displayed a knife and menaced several people with it. When K-9 Officer Alvin Herrington arrived he was able to detain the suspect, later identified as Sayvion Blount, 25, of Syracuse.
Blunt was subsequently taken into custody and transported to the Justice Center, where he was lodged on robbery in the third degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, three (3) counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, three (3) counts of menacing in the second degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and three (3) counts of harassment in the second degree.
