David Copperfield uses magic to escape robbery
Illusionist David Copperfield magically escaped getting robbed in Florida.
After his show at a West Palm Beach performing arts centre on Sunday, Copperfield was walking with two female assistants back to their tour bus when four teenagers pulled up in a black car and demanded the group’s belongings, according to police.
An assistant handed over $400 from her pockets while the other gave up her purse containing a sum of money, passport, plane tickets and a mobile phone.
Copperfield refused to empty his pockets, the report said.
But Copperfield says he turned his pockets inside out to reveal nothing in them, even though he was carrying his passport, wallet and mobile phone.
“Call it reverse pick-pocketing,” Copperfield told The Palm Beach Post for today’s editions.
When the alleged robbers left in the car Copperfield read the registration number to an assistant while she called police.
Four teenagers were arrested shortly after and the assistants’ property recovered.
They were charged with armed robbery and are being held without bond.
Three of the alleged robbers are 17, while the fourth, is 18-years-old.
