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5 Robberies in 90 Minutes in Northwest D.C. Police believe same robbers are responsible for all

Updated 6:31 PM EDT, Wed, Dec 24, 2008

Related Topics: Georgetown | Tenleytown | Crime | Robbery

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Dean Marsh

Five robberies in 90 minutes have some northwest Washington residents on edge this holiday season.

 

Five holdups were reported in a 90-minute span Monday night on the streets of several affluent northwest Washington neighborhoods, according to the Washington Post.

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D.C. police are investigating a series of robberies that happened near popular shopping areas Monday.

The street robberies occurred in Georgetown, Tenleytown, Glover Park and Cleveland Park.

Police believe the same people might have committed them all, the Post reported.

A man was robbed of his wallet, BlackBerry and a Burberry scarf in the 3300 block of O Street in Georgetown at about 7:50 p.m. 

Ten minutes later, three robbers targeted a man in the 4100 block of Calvert Street in Glover Park.

A man was then robbed by three men at 8:25 p.m. in the 4200 block of Albemarle Street in Tenleytown.

At 9 p.m. two men robbed a man walking his dog in the 2500 block of Porter Street and fled in a vehicle.  One of the robbers had a gun.

At 9:15 p.m., two men got out of a car and robbed a woman as she got out of her car in the 2800 block of Quebec Street.

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  • King Friday, Dec 26 at 10:03 AM FLAG COMMENT Proverbs 18:11 Ver. 11. The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city,.... In which he dwells, over which he presides; in which he places his trust and confidence, and thinks himself safe from every enemy and from all trouble: as one {s} observes, "the abundance of a rich man's wealth he conceives to be as it were the abundance of people in a "city"; the telling of his money he imagines to be the walking of people up and down the ... MORE >
  • Anonymous Friday, Dec 26 at 8:43 AM FLAG COMMENT The best way to avoid crime, situational awareness. Anyone who isnt fully PC indoctrinated can SENSE these monkies are going to do something. I just avoid all areas with black people and latinos especially after dark. I NEVER go to DC or PG county except to a game and I watch everyone and stay in well lit and poulated areas. DONT text or listen to music or talk on the cell. Walk to your car with the key in your hand, park in p ... MORE >
  • me Friday, Dec 26 at 6:50 AM FLAG COMMENT Slavedriver, you are right slavery was the worst thing that happend in this country. but peep this maybe whoever WE is should be inslaved now so that they would realize criminals have overall discription a lot of the crime now comes from the decendents of the decendents of WE oh well at least WE and THEY are working together to bad its not on a positve note HOW ABOUT THAT
  • to anon-y-mus (nancy boy) Friday, Dec 26 at 6:03 AM FLAG COMMENT yes.... you most certainly would be ill equipped to handle yourself. but please do not ascribe your inability to read situations, people or your gereral apathy to those of us that carry. most of us know and understand the predictive behaviors people exhibit moments before carrying out an attack. we have PREPARED for such events such that in fractions of a second we have identified, predicted and have gun in hand before you wou ... MORE >
  • lead is the only Friday, Dec 26 at 5:47 AM FLAG COMMENT thing these uncaged animals understand. The residents of DC are prey. And the criminals run the streets. Thankfully VA understands the Constitution and the 2nd amendment, at least for now. We do have more and more spineless liberals moving here every day. Regardless, criminals that threaten my family will be killed. My gun is Politically Correct. It doesn't care what color the criminal is.

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