Metro News Release

For immediate release: January 5, 2005

Transit Police arrest, charge juvenile for armed robbery

Metro Transit Police arrested a 17-year-old juvenile from the District of Columbia today and charged him in connection with stealing another youth’s jacket and backpack at gunpoint on December 16, 2004.

Both young men were riding on a Blue Line train at about 10 a.m. on December 16 when the robber displayed a handgun and demanded the other youth’s jacket and backpack. The robber discharged the gun into the floor of the train and fled with the items at the Benning Road Metrorail station.

The assailant has been charged with armed robbery. Although the assailant is a juvenile, he is being charged as an adult.

"We take crime in the Metrorail and Metrobus system extremely seriously," said Metro Transit Police Chief Polly Hanson. "Our detectives have worked tirelessly to track down this criminal and charge him with this crime."

News release issued on January 5, 2005.