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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 19 April 2017 - 05:09 PM

WMATA news release:

 

Metro Transit Police announce first arrest in Wheaton Red Line train robbery

 

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Metro Transit Police today arrested the first suspect wanted in connection with a strong-arm robbery of a passenger aboard a Red Line train Sunday afternoon. Marcus James Lee, 21, of Northeast DC, was arrested shortly before 2:30 p.m. today by the MTPD Warrant Squad. He is currently being held in D.C., pending extradition to Maryland where he will face two counts of Robbery-Strong Arm, and one count of second degree assault for an unrelated case involving a Ride-ON bus operator.

 

The Red Line robbery occurred around 5:40 p.m. Sunday aboard a train traveling in the direction of Glenmont. As the train approached Wheaton, four suspects approached the victim, an adult male, who was seated on the car. One suspect sat next to the victim and told the victim, “I need you to give me the password for that phone and look the other way, otherwise it will not end well for you.” The victim retained control of his phone, at which point multiple suspects began to punch the victim about his face and head. While getting punched, one of the suspects told the victim to “give me that damn phone!” The victim told police that he felt the suspects’ hands going through his pockets as he tried to defend himself. When the doors opened at Wheaton, the suspects ran off the train and out of the station. The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

 

Several credit and debit cards were stolen from the victim’s pockets.

 

Metro Transit Police have identified all individuals involved in Sunday’s Wheaton case. Additional arrests are expected in the coming days.

 

Marcus James Lee was also linked by MTPD detectives to a second strong-arm robbery that occurred Sunday about two hours later aboard a Q1 Metrobus in Silver Spring. In that incident, an adult victim reported being assaulted from behind by two suspects who grabbed his iPhone. The suspects fled the bus at Colesville Road and Viers Mill Road. Police canvased the area but were unable to immediately located the suspects. The victim was not seriously injured.

 



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Posted 20 April 2017 - 05:35 PM

WMATA news release, 4/20:

 

Second suspect arrested in Wheaton Red Line train robbery

 

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Metro Transit Police today announced the arrest of a second suspect wanted in connection with Sunday's strong-arm robbery aboard a Red Line train at Wheaton. Antwan Devonte Haynie, 19, of Northeast D.C., was arrested in Prince George's County this afternoon.
 

Haynie will face two counts of strong-arm robbery in Maryland.

 

Yesterday, MTPD arrested another suspect, Marcus James Lee, in connection with the Wheaton case, as well as second strong-arm robbery that occurred Sunday about two hours later aboard a Q1 Metrobus in Silver Spring. In that incident, an adult victim reported being assaulted from behind by two suspects who grabbed his iPhone. The suspects fled the bus at Colesville Road and Viers Mill Road. Police canvased the area but were unable to immediately locate the suspects. The victim was not seriously injured.

 

Haynie is also charged in the Silver Spring robbery.

 

The Wheaton Red Line robbery occurred around 5:40 p.m. Sunday aboard a train traveling in the direction of Glenmont. As the train approached Wheaton, four suspects approached the victim, an adult male, who was seated on the car. One suspect sat next to the victim and told the victim, "I need you to give me the password for that phone and look the other way, otherwise it will not end well for you." The victim retained control of his phone, at which point multiple suspects began to punch the victim about his face and head. While getting punched, one of the suspects told the victim to "give me that damn phone!" The victim told police that he felt the suspects' hands going through his pockets as he tried to defend himself. When the doors opened at Wheaton, the suspects ran off the train and out of the station. The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Several credit and debit cards were stolen from the victim's pockets.

 

Metro Transit Police have identified all four individuals involved in the Wheaton case. Additional arrests are expected in the coming days.

 



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Posted 15 November 2017 - 04:18 PM

The Washington Post, 11/15/17:
 

Videos of robbers on D.C.-area subway and bus alarm a judge: ‘You didn’t care’

 

 

The four men crowded around a 23-year-old sitting on the Red Line Metro train in evening rush hour as it headed into the Wheaton station. The four suddenly grabbed him, punched him and yanked credit cards from his pocket as horrified passengers looked on.

 

The crew then boarded a Metro bus, where they crowded up to a 27-year-old dishwasher, heading home from a restaurant. They locked his neck in a chokehold, pushed him, stole his iPhone and walked off at the next stop.

 

“You didn’t care. You could have cared less. I saw you on the video,” Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl McCally told two of the robbers in her courtroom Tuesday.

 

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Posted 15 November 2017 - 04:23 PM

WTOP radio, 11/15/17:
 

Mom identifies 2 Metro robbery suspects as her sons, now sentenced

 

 

WASHINGTON — A pair of D.C. brothers are facing several years in prison after their mother identified them to police as the men robbing Metro riders.

 

Marcus Lee and Antwan Haynie, half brothers who live in the same house in Northeast D.C., have been sentenced to six and seven years in prison, respectively, for two counts of robbery each.

 

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After Metro Transit Police released surveillance video of the strong-arm robberies, it was Lee and Haynie’s mother who identified them.

 

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