armed robbery

DNA analysis has been around for decades, and it’s a crucial tool for solving violent crimes, but until recently, it was nearly impossible to collect DNA evidence left at shooting scenes. That changed with a process developed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The day after Christmas in 2019, two men walked into a Denny’s in...

A manhunt was underway Friday for an armed robber who attacked an elderly Lyft driver in South El Monte Monday night.

A man with an AR-15 rifle and two others robbed a Papa John’s in Maryland in what appears to have been part of an hours-long crime spree. Surveillance video from Sunday around 2:30 p.m. shows a man walk into the pizza shop on East West Highway in Silver Spring as a lookout. Then two other men walk in behind...

Terrifying surveillance video shows a Maryland Papa John’s robbed by a group armed with an AR-15. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

A family had just left an event at RFK Stadium when they were held up at gunpoint. When a woman failed to hand over her purse fast enough, a robber grabbed the arm of a 4-year-old child. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports it was one of two armed robberies that happened minutes apart.

The FBI is investigating a string of armed carjackings and robberies of FedEx and UPS trucks in D.C. and Prince George’s County, Maryland, over the past 10 days. The FBI is looking for two people believed responsible for two carjackings and three armed robberies between Nov. 10 and Nov. 17. D.C. police told News4 in one case the thieves told…

Federal authorities in New York City have brought charges in the armed robbery of a reality TV pal of Kim Kardashian

Authorities say two Louisiana teens have been arrested in the killing of an Arizona State University professor whose body has been found in a landfill.

Three armed robberies have taken place in the garage in the past two weeks.

News4’s Aimee Cho reports from Pentagon City Mall, where three armed robberies have occurred since Jan. 19. A second armed carjacking took place Thursday.

Two armed robberies have taken place over the past week in the Pentagon City Mall parking garage in Arlington, Virginia. The first incident occurred Jan. 19 about 5:25 p.m. when a woman was approached in her parked car at gunpoint and forced to give up her cellphone, police said. The robber fled the scene on foot. A similar situation occurred…

News4’s Aimee Cho reports on a set of armed robberies that occured in the Pentagon City mall parking garage this past week.

A string of robberies in a Northwest D.C. neighborhood have businesses and people living nearby on edge. Police think one man has hit up several places for cash. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A woman stole a puppy at gunpoint and even tried to fire the weapon during the crime, Prince George’s County police said. The victim was walking the puppy, Lobo, at Kent Village Drive and E. Ridge Drive in Landover, Maryland, Dec. 30 when a car passed him and pulled up ahead of him, police said. Juanel Huff, 26, of Southeast…

Police believe the two armed men who stormed into a Denny’s restaurant in Manassas, Virginia, early Thursday and shot two people, killing a food delivery worker, are linked to several recent armed robberies. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.