Issue date: 4/8/08 Section: City

Chicago Police have detained three men who fit the description of the two men who allegedly robbed a female Northwestern student early Sunday morning, Vice President for University Relations Alan Cubbage said. Police stopped a vehicle in Rogers Park on the city's North Side a few hours after the robbery occurred and found two BB guns inside, he said. No charges have yet been filed.

The student was walking with a friend toward Bobb Hall on the sidewalk that runs north from Sargent Hall through the fraternity quads when the men approached them at 4:50 a.m., according to University Police Asst. Chief Dan McAleer and a security alert posted on NU's Web site. One of the students gave her purse to the men. As the other student attempted to do so, the strap of her purse broke. The two men took the first student's purse and fled.

The student told police one of the men was carrying a handgun, but the students were not sure if the gun was real, Cubbage said. The victim of the robbery notified her bank about a stolen credit card and was told it had been used, Cubbage said.

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