
Walter Perez
Anchor and General Assignment Reporter at WPVI-TV (Philadelphia, PA)
Reporter and anchor for Channel 6 Action News in Philadelphia. I've also reported for WNBC in New York and the ABC affiliate in Miami. Duke Blue Devil
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2 days ago |
6abc.com | Walter Perez
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The search is on for a group of armed robbery suspects who targeted people outside a Center City Philadelphia club. The crime occurred very late at night when there were few people walking around the area at the time, but nearby surveillance cameras were rolling, capturing very clear images of the people involved. Those surveillance images reveal two of three incidents outside the NOTO Nightclub at 12th and Vine streets last Friday night.
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1 week ago |
6abc.com | Walter Perez
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Investigators are looking for the man captured on surveillance video in connection with the armed robbery of a postal worker this past Monday in Philadelphia's East Mount Airy neighborhood. But authorities say that was actually the third time a letter carrier was robbed a gunpoint over the past week in the same general area. Captain John Craig from NW Detectives says this thief is after one thing in particular.
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1 week ago |
6abc.com | Walter Perez
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police are looking for the man who tried robbing a woman at knifepoint and attempted to take her dog near the campus of Drexel University. Surveillance video captured images of a man who, police believe, was behind the terrifying incident earlier this month. Authorities say it was right around 10 at night when the man approached a young woman walking her dog along the 3200 block of Powellton Avenue.
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2 weeks ago |
6abc.com | Walter Perez
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- New data shows the number of police pursuits in Pennsylvania has been on the rise. The most recent incident happened on Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia, where a 68-year-old cyclist was hit by a police vehicle during a chase at 7th and Spring Garden streets. Police were pursuing a vehicle because they say it was connected to a recent shooting.
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3 weeks ago |
6abc.com | Walter Perez
NORTHFIELD, N.J. (WPVI) -- Forty-seven-year-old Joseph Ridley of Mays Landing is a supervisor for the Atlantic County Roads and Bridges Department. He also owns a business called Z5 Logistics. But Ridley, along with three of his Z5 Logistics employees, stands accused of stealing gasoline from the county's public works department to fuel up the side business' work vehicles. Prosecutors say Ridley relayed the passcode to activate the county's fueling station in Northfield to his employees.
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Body found in Maryland amid search for missing 3-year-old girl at center of Amber Alert in Delaware - 6abc Philadelphia https://t.co/DMhGV87gWX

Man impersonating ICE agent tied woman up during business robbery in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia - 6abc Philadelphia https://t.co/EDMwa18tVj

Data: Police pursuits in Philadelphia among growing trend across Pennsylvania - 6abc Philadelphia https://t.co/CMkRRtNnSr