A District man with a penchant for pilfering finds himself in deep legal water after being slapped with a grand jury indictment on three counts of second-degree theft and GPS tampering. Darryl Robinson, 37, a local of Washington, D.C., was allegedly caught on a crime spree from February to March while out on release for a separate retail theft case; he's now facing a tougher sentence due to his criminal history. Robinson's arraignment is scheduled for April 11, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia.
The man's latest alleged misadventures include a hit-and-run with merchandise at a Northwest D.C. CVS on February 4 and 9, where he reportedly swiped goods and strolled out casually past cash registers, the U.S. Attorney's Office details the bold thefts; on March 5, a ring camera purportedly caught him in the act, snagging a package off someone’s porch. The coppers nabbed him on March 10, with a malfunctioning device meant to fiddle with his GPS monitoring bracelet hinting that he tried and failed to outsmart the law.
Robinson's rap sheet, riddled with two or more prior theft convictions, punches his ticket to potentially harsher punishment under D.C. law – now he's staring down a one-year mandatory minimum jolt in jail if convicted for the enhanced counts he's up against. The stakes are high for habitual heisters like Robinson, with an aggressive track record: indicting 37 cases of felony second-degree theft since last September, all involving perps with multiple theft convictions, as per the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia.
This case has the Metropolitan Police Department and the sharp legal minds at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the D.C. teaming up, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rana Wahdan handling the prosecution prodding these alleged repeat offenders, like Robinson, towards a legal reckoning that might curb their kleptocratic tendencies, as reported by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
