Authorities are investigating a series of taxicab robberies in Northeast D.C. that happened within a 24-hour period, and say they may be related.
The first happened around 1:25 a.m. Wednesday as a cabdriver was dropping off a passenger at Third Street and Rhode Island Avenue. Authorities say the passenger robbed the driver of a phone and cash before fleeing toward Bryant Street.
At about 10:30 p.m., a cabdriver was robbed in the 600 block of Rhode Island Avenue. Police say the passenger took a phone and ear piece and fled north on the Metropolitan Bike Trail.
And at 12:55 a.m. Thursday, police say a passenger tried to rob a cabdriver at Third and Evarts streets. Authorities say the cabdriver continued driving and then slowed down, and the passenger got out without taking anything.
D.C. Cabdrivers Targeted in Robberies, Police Say
Incidents happened within a 24-hour period
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