Police arrest man for Ben Franklin Bridge assaults

    Two men suspected of attacking women in and around Philadelphia are now in police custody. As Philadelphia officers arrested a man yesterday in connection with Society Hill attacks, authorities also took into custody a man wanted to assaults on women along the Ben Franklin Bridge.

    The Associated Press reports a 47-year-old Blackwood man is now in custody. Police found him on the bridge walkway yesterday after he allegedly groped a woman — the second of two such claims against him.

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