Commonwealth v. Urbina

SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence for unlawful restraint 1 and robbery. 2 The principal issue, as we see it, is whether appellant was arrested without probable cause. We have concluded that there was probable cause, and affirm. 3

Appellant was arrested for committing an armed robbery at the Weis market in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. Officer Robert A. Herman, Jr., the East Hempfield Township police officer who arrested appellant, relied on two sources of information: a radio broadcast from the Lancaster County Radio Dispatcher, and Kearney Sherr, the…