An armored vehicle driver was hauling a bag of cash out of a Gambrills McDonald's on the morning of October 30 when a man crept up from behind and tried to rip the bag out of his hands. Instead of handing it over, the driver fought back — and ended up grappling with not one but two attackers before police swooped in and arrested both of them.
Anne Arundel County police officers were called to the restaurant in the 1100 block of Crain Highway South at around 10:40 a.m., according to thebaynet.com. The driver had just collected cash from the fast-food chain and was walking it back to his vehicle when the first man approached from behind and grabbed at the bag, touching off a physical struggle right there in the parking lot, per the same outlet.
Second Suspect Jumps In Mid-Struggle
As the driver fought to keep hold of the bag, a second suspect pulled up in a separate vehicle, got out, and jumped into the fray, the station reported. The driver managed to fend off both men, according to WBFF, which also covered the attempted heist. The pair ultimately gave up and fled together in the second suspect's car.
They didn't get far. An officer spotted and stopped the suspect vehicle in the 1000 block of Central Avenue not long after, and both men were taken into custody without incident, the baynet.com report states. Police identified them as 38-year-old Ryun Phillip Watson of Washington, D.C., and 32-year-old Michael Andre Holmes Jr. of Odenton.
Evidence Teams Process Two Scenes
The department's Evidence Collection Unit processed both the McDonald's parking lot and the spot where the traffic stop happened, according to the same account, while the Criminal Investigation Division has taken over the case going forward.
The attempted robbery comes as Anne Arundel County police touted a sharp drop in similar crimes countywide. The department reported a 46% reduction in commercial robberies in 2025 — 33 incidents compared with 61 the year before — along with a 47% drop in citizen robberies, down to 102 from 192, according to a county government release. The same report noted 11 murders in the county in 2025, one more than the prior year, and said officers seized 275 guns for evidentiary purposes over the course of the year.
