NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man is headed to prison for robbing a woman of $20 while brandishing a knife, as the woman played a skill game machine at a local business.
Malik Ra Shaw Whitfield, 31, of the 5100 block of Wayne Avenue, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court this week to 3 to 6 years in a state correctional institution after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of robbery in connection with the May 2025 incident in Pottstown.
Judge Wendy G. Rothstein imposed the sentence as part of a plea agreement. Whitfield pleaded guilty just days before his trial was slated to begin…