Robbery

D.C. police are investigating a brazen abduction and robbery that unfolded Wednesday night in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington. Police said three masked men, all holding handguns, forced a 57-year-old man into his car in the 3800 block of Second Street SE shortly after 8 p.m. The group traveled in the car -- a 2000 beige Chevrolet Malibu -- to a park area, where the gunmen told the man to remove his shoes and lie on the ground, police said. The gunmen fired multiple shots into the ground around the man, then...

NEW CASTLE, Del. — Police are investigating the robbery of a pizza delivery driver in New Castle. New Castle County Police say they responded to Capano Drive at 9:52 p.m. Saturday for a report of a robbery. The 49-year-old driver reported he was attempting to locate an apartment to make a delivery when he was attacked by three men. The driver told police he was struck several times before one of the suspects fled on foot and two others fled in a small dark car with tinted windows.

A pair of would-be robbers on the Mall knocked a man down Monday afternoon and went through his pockets, the U.S. Park Police said. The incident occurred about 5:15 p.m. in the Ripley Garden between the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries building and the Hirshhorn Museum, said Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman. He said the man was walking through the garden area in the 900 block of Jefferson Drive SW when two men in ski masks and dark clothing came up from behind.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — A wanted man with a criminal history dating back nearly 15 years was identified by police Saturday as the masked home invader involved in the death of a Hofstra University student early Friday morning. Dalton Smith, who was wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction, attempted to rob the off-campus home where he and Hofstra junior Andrea Rebello were fatally shot, Nassau County police said. Authorities said police were involved in the...

For nearly four hours in June, Eric W. Johnson insisted to Prince George's County police detectives that the two armed robbery victims who had identified him as a culprit were wrong, that he was innocent. For seven months, Johnson, 19, remained in the county jail in Upper Marlboro, awaiting a jury's decision on charges of armed robbery, first-degree assault, using a handgun in a crime of violence, 17 offenses in all, carrying the possibility of decades of prison time. The jury never weighed in. On Thursday, before what would have been...

District police were on the lookout Saturday afternoon for a robbery suspect who they said wielded a revolver and wore a Redskins hat. The search followed an apparent robbery in the 1300 block of H Street NE. It formed part of a handful of apparently unrelated incidents that played out on District streets over the past few days, in which several holdups occurred, a female victim was stabbed and the police made several arrests. At 8 p.m. Thursday, two robbers at 13th and G streets NE demanded property from two women,...

A man returning from a Washington Nationals baseball game was beaten by youths who tried to rob him, and two other people were robbed within half a mile of the ballpark in separate incidents this week, police said. They said attackers in all three cases were described as youths, possibly five or more. Two youths were arrested in one robbery, and police said they are looking into similarities the three incidents. A man coming from the game reported that he was attacked and struck in the head about 10:25 p.m. Tuesday...

Police in Montgomery County are investigating a robbery and stabbing in Silver Spring early Monday morning. The incident took place shortly before 1 a.m. in the 8700 block of Gilbert Place, authorities said. The victim was stabbed during the robbery and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. No additional information was available about the the robbery, or the victim's identity or injuries. No suspect information has been released.

Robbers armed with a fire extinguisher held up a restaurant in Montgomery County on Thursday night, carrying out the third extinguisher robbery in the same general area in a week. News accounts from around the country have occasionally cited other robberies in which extinguishers have been brandished, discharged or used as blunt objects to inflict injury. In Thursday's incident, the robbers discharged an extinguisher inside El Meson restaurant in the 600 block of S. Frederick Avenue, the county police...

The gunpoint robbery took place at one of the most prominent intersections in the nation's capital: Connecticut Avenue and K Street NW. On Friday, three men were sentenced in the Oct. 17, 2011, daytime holdup. Gold coins worth more than $10,000 were taken from a business, and three victims were threatened, said the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Columbia. The oldest victim, an 82-year-old customer, was hit in the head with a knife handle, the prosecutors said. The robbery occurred at Capitol Coin & Stamp...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — Prince George's County police say they've arrested three men in connection with more than 50 burglaries, including one that resulted in a loss of nearly $70,000. The burglaries date to last December and targeted homes in Fort Washington and Oxon Hill. Police say the three men targeted computers, jewelry, weapons, televisions and other items. One burglary involved a safe holding nearly $70,000 in valuables. The suspects have been identified as 40-year-old Anthony Nyrekie...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — Prince George's County Police have arrested four Washington residents for the slaying of a man in his Brandywine home. Police this week arrested 20-year-old Moshawn Magruder; 20-year-old Erica Johnson; 20-year-old Eric Donte and 19-year-old Antonio Johnson. They are each charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 55-year-old Alphonso Drew. Drew was found dead in his home Sunday. An autopsy showed he died from blunt force trauma. Police say robbery was...

Residents of Capitol Hill north of Lincoln Park took matters into their own hands Tuesday evening after a youth snatched a cellphone from a woman's hand: They chased down the 14-year-old, and authorities caught two accomplices the same age, D.C. police said. Police don't normally advise people to go after crime suspects, instead urging them to remember events and details and then quickly dial 911. But in this case, a captain from the 1st Police District made special mention of the incident on the department's Internet...

LAS VEGAS — The lead defense attorney in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial had a conflict of interest because he could have been a witness in the case, a lawyer who worked on Simpson's unsuccessful appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court testified Thursday. Witness Malcolm LaVergne said that defense attorney Yale Galanter's conflict was that he had given Simpson legal advice regarding his plan to confront sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel in 2007 and take...

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LAS VEGAS — His leg shackles rattling as he shuffled to the witness stand, a grayer, bulkier O.J. Simpson made his case for a new trial on armed robbery charges Wednesday, saying he was relying on the advice of his trusted attorney when he tried to reclaim mementos from his football glory days. The former NFL running back also said his trial attorney never told him about possible plea bargains with much less prison time. And he said his attorney assured him he could not be convicted.

A 23-year-old man and a 17-year-old student were arrested yesterday after a fight inside Northwest High School in Germantown, and Montgomery County police said the student was carrying a gun and had robbed a fellow student this week. Investigators said they think that yesterday's fight stemmed from an armed robbery Wednesday morning inside a school restroom. During that incident, officials said, David T. Katembwe, the student who was arrested yesterday, allegedly forced another 17-year-old into the restroom after watching him sell his...

The service station is on the northwestern edge of the Washington metropolitan area, near Harpers Ferry, W.Va., the Potomac River and the spot where Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia meet. In April, a D.C. woman was robbed and knocked unconscious there, the Loudoun County sheriff's office said. A West Virginia man was charged Thursday with robbery in the incident, and a second man was being sought, the sheriff's office said last week. Authorities said the investigation was aided by surveillance video of the...

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson became so dependent on his lawyer during his Las Vegas armed robbery trial that the former football star would have done anything Yale Galanter advised — including passing up the chance to testify, his co-counsel testified Tuesday. "I could advise O.J. all day long, and he was very respectful of me," Gabriel Grasso told the court. "But if I advised him of something different from what Yale said, he would do what Yale said. " It was Galanter's decision not to have...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Five men accused of robbing bank customers were sentenced to life in prison for murder on Monday for killing the child of a pregnant woman who was chased down by motorcycle gunmen and shot twice as she begged for mercy. Carolina Piparo survived the shooting, but her baby boy, Isidro, was born prematurely and died a week later. The case shocked Argentines and prompted congress to require additional security measures at bank branches,...