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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hopewell Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that thirty-five-year-old Xinhua Chen of Brooklyn, New York was apprehended for stealing approximately $102,000 from someone in Hopewell Township on Friday. This theft occurred on Green Garden Road that morning and according to police, Chen had met with the victim in secret on two prior occasions, extorting money from the victim. Chen is in the Beaver County Jail and there is an ongoing investigation into this incident because it is believed that more money from the victim might have been extorted.