Man with road flare took victim’s phone

<p>A Columbus man was arrested after a man told police that a person, armed with a road flare, took his cell phone from him, police said.</p><p>Ryan Travis Halligan, 28, 2450 Farmstead Drive, was arrested on charges of criminal conversion, possession of marijuana/hashish and possession of paraphernalia.</p><p>An Edinburgh Police Department officer was dispatched to the Circle K., at 201 N. Main St. at 6:59 a.m. Wednesday to a report of an armed robbery, according to a probable cause affidavit.</p><p>A man told police that Halligan had threatened him with an unlit road flare and taken his cell phone, the affidavit said.</p><p>The man told police he and Halligan had met early Wednesday morning at a Circle K., in Columbus, when the man gave Halligan a ride to Edinburgh. The men arrived and were sitting on a bench in town when the robbery occurred. The victim drove to the gas station and an attendant called police, according to the affidavit.</p><p>Police found Halligan in a home in Edinburgh and found the road flare and the victim’s cell phone. Police also saw a bong with a vegetative substance.</p><p>Halligan was arrested and taken to the Johnson County Jail, where he was held on $6,000 bond.</p>