A series of brazen daylight robberies perpetrated by a single individual has been brought to an abrupt end by the Metropolitan Police Department's Third District, according to an official report. The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Isaiah Harris of Northeast D.C., was apprehended in connection to three establishment robberies in Northwest.
The first of the incidents unfolded Monday afternoon when Harris allegedly walked into a business on the 2400 block of 18th Street at around 1:10 p.m., his intentions clear as he demanded money from the worker there, the MPD detailed. The quick-thinking employee revealed the lack of cash at hand and escaped, leaving Harris to exit empty-handed. Merely forty-six minutes later, Harris reportedly made a similar attempt at a location on the 1000 block of U Street, where he feigned the possession of a weapon and repeated his demand for money however this time too, he left without profit.
In a report released by the MPD, officers from the Third District swiftly located and arrested Harris shortly after the second failed heist. The capture also linked Harris to an earlier successful robbery that took place on February 22, where he had managed to invoke fear into an employee at a business on the 1800 block of 14th Street, compelling the surrender of an undisclosed sum of money.
