The parents had just come from brunch when the suspects approached them with knives and demanded money in broad daylight.
They were charged as adults and given eight years each.
It happened around 6 a.m. on Sunday.
The majority of the crimes are armed robberies.
A pizzeria in Dumfries, Va. was held up at gunpoint Wednesday night when an armed robber stole an undisclosed amount of cash while wearing a KISS mask.
Celebrity gossip site TMZ is reporting that White House staffer Kalpen Modi, aka actor Kal Penn, was the victim of an armed robbery somewhere in D.C. early this morning. A mugger allegedly made off with his wallet and other personal property at about 1:20 a.m., according to the site. Not a lot of other details were immediately available. What a bummer for Modi, who is prepping to leave D.C. fairly soon to head back…
The Borderstan blog alerts us to what appears to be a string of armed robberies in the past week in their Logan/Dupont/Shaw overlap area. Three different gun-involved muggings have happened along R Street NW between New Hampshire and 13th, and another happened the other night at 11th Street NW and Vermont Ave. We also heard about at least one other armed robbery Thursday night, right around 14th and T Streets NW. Stay alert in the…
D.C. police have released surveillance video of an armed robbery perpetrated on Wednesday, March 11 at 10:24 a.m. p.m. at Metro Wine and Spirits, in the 1700 block of Columbia Road NW. FOX 5 reports that four businesses have been robbed in the same block in the last two weeks: Crumbs and Coffee, Casa Lebrato, and Banco National were all also robbed recently. Police describe the suspects as three black males in their 20-30s, wearing…
View Larger Map WUSA reports on what appears to be a string of Chinese carryout restaurants being targeted for armed robberies. The two most recent robberies took place on Saturday night. One of them occured at Eastern Carryout, located at 1784 Florida Ave NW. Owner Paul Chen told WUSA that three men came in through the rear door of the restaurant, forced Chen and his parents into the back and then pistol whipped his mother…