Two teenage girls have been charged after allegedly slashing a man in the head during a botched Facebook Marketplace sale robbery.
Police say it happened about 2.30pm on Sunday when the victim, a man aged in his 40s, arrived at a property on Teasel Way in the northern Perth suburb of Carramar.
He’d arranged to meet a 13-year-old girl there on Marketplace to sell her his iPhone.
Western Australia Police say the girl snatched the phone from the man and took off, meeting with a 15-year-old girl who was armed with a knife.
Two teenage girls have been charged after allegedly slashing a man in the head during a botched Facebook Marketplace sale robbery
The man chased the pair to nearby Viminea St, where the two girls – now both armed with knifes – allegedly swung at the man’s head, causing him a number of cuts, before fleeing the scene, police say.
The man was taken to hospital for treatment, while police arrested the girls at a home in the nearby suburb of Banksia Grove.
They’ve each been charged with one count of aggravated armed robbery and one count of unlawful wounding and are due in Perth Children’s Court on Monday.
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