Authorities Arrest Juvenile Suspected of Robbing Woman During Social Media App Transaction

Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy suspected of robbing a woman at gunpoint during a transaction arranged on a social media app, the sheriff’s department announced April 5. The victim called police on Feb. 17 after she said she was held at gunpoint near Kiefer Boulevard and South Port Drive in Rosemont, a neighborhood southeast of Sacramento. The sheriff’s department says the woman met with the teenage boy to conduct a transaction related to Offer Up, a popular app used by the public to buy and sell items, usually for cash. The app bills itself as “the simplest, most trusted way to buy and sell locally.”...