Humans are creatures of habit, but maybe criminals shouldn’t be.
Police arrested a D.C. man yesterday for robbing merchandise from a 7-Eleven on Bladensburg Road NE, and they quickly linked him to three other robberies from the same store—the very one that he had once been fired from after being caught lifting goods off the shelves, reports the Post:
As police from the 5th District investigated, they learned that the suspect had worked at the store in the 900 block of Bladensburg Road in the past, been fired after being charged with stealing merchandise off the shelves and was awaiting trial at the time of his arrest Tuesday.
Not only that, police said they suspect he held up the same 7-Eleven on Nov. 22, Nov. 26 and Dec. 7. Police said Wednesday that they charged Daniel H. Richardson with four counts of robbery. Clerks told police that they recognized him as a former worker during the latest encounter.
And get this: at the time of his arrest, he was apparently on his way back to the 7-Eleven because his girlfriend was angry at the meager haul from his first heist that day, when he walked off with $35, four packs of Newport cigarettes and a doughnut.
Martin Austermuhle