Three men are behind bars after the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office says they robbed seven businesses at gunpoint, including a taco truck, during a spree that stretched across the Fort Bend and Harris county line. Investigators say the robberies netted the suspects a few thousand dollars in cash from registers, and while no one was hurt, Sheriff Eric Fagan says the case remains open, with more suspects or victims possibly still out there.
According to ABC13 Houston, the seven targeted businesses were clustered in the Bellaire, Beechnut, and Highway 6 area of Fort Bend County. The three men approached a taco truck and other local businesses, demanding money before fleeing, per the outlet's reporting. Six of the seven robberies happened over a single overnight stretch, from the evening of August 6 into August 7, 2026.
Surveillance video became a key part of connecting the crimes across jurisdictions, the station reports, ultimately allowing investigators to link the three men to all seven incidents. Additional detail on that overnight run came from HTX Media, which reported the string included an armed hold-up of a food truck in the 16,300 block of Bellaire Boulevard and a business in the 9200 block of Highway 6 South on August 7, 2026 — the specific locations that let investigators tie seven incidents together across Fort Bend and Harris counties.
Multi-Agency Arrests Close In On Suspects
The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office announced the arrests as the result of a multi-agency aggravated robbery investigation, with both the Houston Police Department and the Harris County Sheriff's Office participating alongside the county's own investigators. Alex Rosales-Puente, 22, and Wilfredo Perez, 21, were both arrested August 18, 2026, while Ian Mohammad Dakka, 19, was arrested more recently, on September 1, 2026, per ABC13's reporting.
The August 18 arrests were carried out with assistance from the Houston Police Tactical Surveillance Team and Texas Department of Public Safety investigators, per HTX Media's reporting. Guns and other evidence were found during the arrests of all three suspects, according to investigators, though law enforcement has not disclosed further details about the weapons or other evidence recovered, citing the ongoing investigation.
All three men are charged with aggravated robbery. Court and jail records reported by the same outlet show Rosales-Puente and Dakkak were being held in the Fort Bend County Jail on $300,000 bond each, while Perez was held in the Harris County Jail on a $110,000 bond facing three counts — a jurisdictional split reflecting where each specific robbery occurred.
Why The Border Between Counties Mattered
The commercial corridors along Bellaire Boulevard, Beechnut Street, Bissonnet Street, and Highway 6 form a heavily populated area where Houston city limits, Harris County, and Fort Bend County all intersect, according to City of Houston planning documents. That overlapping geography meant no single agency had jurisdiction over every robbery site, which is why investigators say sharing surveillance footage across departments proved pivotal in connecting overnight robberies that initially looked like isolated, unrelated incidents.
Sheriff Fagan said the investigation is ongoing and that more suspects or robbery victims may still be identified. Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers operates a continuous anonymous tip hotline offering cash rewards up to $5,000 for information leading to felony arrests, a resource the sheriff's office has leaned on as it works to close out unresolved threads in the case.
Aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon is classified as a first-degree felony under Texas Penal Code § 29.03, carrying a punishment range of 5 to 99 years or life in state prison along with fines up to $10,000, according to the L&L Law Group. Because it is designated a 3g violent offense under Article 42A.054 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, anyone convicted must serve at least half of their actual sentence before becoming eligible for parole.
Part Of A Broader Pattern In The Suburbs
This is not the first time armed robbery crews have crossed the Fort Bend-Harris county line and drawn a coordinated law enforcement response. Suspects briefly fled a Sugar Land jail back in January after an armed pharmacy robbery, and two Houston men were sentenced to 14 years in federal prison in September 2025 for a series of armed convenience store robberies spanning both counties. Annual crime data compiled by the Texas Department of Public Safety recorded 247 total robbery offenses and 1,018 assault cases across all Fort Bend County law enforcement agencies in a single reporting year, according to the The Napier Law Firm, underscoring how relatively rare violent crime sprees like this one are for the fast-growing suburban county.
