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Hakeem-Ali Ibrahim Shomo, 25, of Cleveland and Nastassja Monique Powell, 20, of Painesville are accused of leaving their 1-year-old child home alone for more than 10 hours while they robbed a Parma man of a pair of tennis shoes.

(Parma Police Department)

PARMA, Ohio -- A man and woman left their 1-year-old child home alone for more than 10 hours while they robbed a Parma man of a pair of shoes, police said.

Hakeem-Ali Ibrahim Shomo, 25, of Cleveland and Nastassja Monique Powell, 20, of Painesville are charged with felony robbery.

Both were arraigned Thursday in Parma Municipal Court. Their cases were bound over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury, court records show.

The robbery happened at 3:18 a.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of Tuxedo Avenue, according to a Parma police news release issued Friday.

A 39-year-old Parma man flagged down an officer and said he had just been robbed by a couple in a blue Pontiac G6 heading north on Broadview Road toward Brookpark Road.

The officer stopped the car on Brookpark Road at the State Route 176 on ramp. Powell was in the driver's seat and Shomo was a passenger, police said.

Shomo and Powell responded to an ad for a pair of Nike Air Jordans the victim was selling through the OfferUp smart phone app. The couple tried to pay for the shoes with counterfeit money, police said.

The victim realized the money was fake as the couple drove away with the shoes. The victim grabbed the car and was dragged about 40 feet, police said.

Shomo and Powell were taken to the Parma Police Department.

About 11 a.m. -- eight hours after the robbery -- Powell told Parma police the couple had left their 1-year-old daughter alone in her Painesville home, nearly 40 miles away.

Painesville police found the child alone inside a locked apartment in the 200 block of Brentwood Drive. The child was asleep in a bedroom, wearing a T-shirt and no diaper, police said.

The apartment was "not well kept" and the room where the child was sleeping had a strong smell of urine, Painesville police Chief Anthony Powalie said.

"We will be filing child-endangering charges and possibly more," Powalie said Friday.

No charges had been filed in Lake County or Painesville Municipal courts as of Friday morning.

Powell told Parma detectives the couple left the child alone around 1 a.m. Wednesday, but police believe the child was alone longer, Parma police Lt. Kevin Riley said. He would not go into further details, as the investigation is ongoing.

Shomo and Powell remain in Parma City Jail on $50,000 bonds.

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