![]() ![]() He’s being held on $100,000 bail at the Berks County Jail. Martinez-Herrera faces charges of robbery, terroristic threats and simple assault. ![]() Sounding incredulous at his own luck, Valletta exclaimed, “You’re a lifesaver, oh my God!” Deputy Sheriff Terry Ely stops Victor Martinez-Herrera's attempted robbery of driver Ralph Valletta at North 10th Street. “The deputy saw the defendant in the back seat with a handful of money, he couldn’t see the gun at first.”Īs the deputy approached the car, Martinez-Herrera yelled “fake gun” and put his hands up, complying with Ely’s orders to get on the ground. “When he approached the vehicle he heard yelling,” Sheriff Eric J. That’s when the deputy decided to flash his lights and walk up to see what was happening. ![]() Deputy Terry Ely was stopped behind Ralph Valletta’s cab at a. The shaken taxi driver, Ralph Valletta, handed over $11, telling Martinez-Herrera he had just started his shift and had no cash. A Pennsylvania police officer foiled an attempted armed robbery on Monday, simply by being in the right place at the right time. Inside the car, cameras mounted on the ceiling recorded 18-year-old Victor Martinez-Herrera demanding, “Give me all your money man! Give me everything you got!” while pointing what appeared to be a pistol at his head, according to officials. Robert Valletta is the award-winning author of the American Fiction Awards (AFA) crime thriller finalist Blood Running Hot, and the AFA techno-thriller finalist Crossfire. Waiting behind the cab was Berks County Deputy Sheriff Terry Ely, who became suspicious when the car failed to move as the traffic light turned green multiple times. Surveillance cameras recorded a masked man robbing a terrified taxi driver at gunpoint – but the suspect forgot to check the rear-view mirror. “The commotion was still going on, so I made it a point to put on my emergency lights.READING, Pa. “It sounded like people talking loud or some kind of an argument coming from inside of the cab, but sometimes you just blow those things off,” Ely later said. Berks County Sheriff’s Deputy Terry Ely said he first suspected something was wrong after the cab sat at the light as it turned green and cycled through again. The dashcam in a taxi captured the moments that taxi driver, Ralph Valletta, 63, is nearly robbed by 18-year-old Victor Martinez-Herrera on Monday in Reading, Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, what Martinez-Herrera failed to notice was the patrol car that pulled up behind the taxi. The suspect, who was later identified as 18-year-old Victor Martinez-Herrera, was unsatisfied with Valletta’s response and demanded his wallet and cell phone, in addition to the $11. The video shows the masked man shove a gun into Vallettas face. Video footage from inside the cab captured the terrified driver, Ralph Valletta, explaining to the robber he just started his work day and all he had was $11 in cash. The terrifying footage was recorded Monday after driver Ralph Valletta started his shift with Reading Metro Taxi. The robbery occurred after the cab stopped at a red light. 0 With a gun at his head and fear in his heart, a cab driver found his 'lifesaver' to be a Berks County sheriff's deputy who happened to be in the right place at the right time. The criminal starts in on him saying, What else you got. ![]() In the video you can see Valleta handing the hoodlum his money, but that wasn’t good enough. An attempted robbery of a taxi cab driver in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Monday afternoon didn’t quite turn out as planned after a police officer happened to roll up in the middle of the robbery. Ralph Valletta, a 25-year veteran taxi driver, was being held up at gunpoint by 18 year-old Victor Martinez-Herrera in a hoodie and mask. ![]()
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