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Seniors Possibly Targeting Seniors for Robbery
posted 9:57 pm Mon March 03, 2008 - Bladensburg, Md.
The suspects seem to target grocery stores popular with seniors, picking targets carefully. They display a gun and force their septuagenarian victims to nearby banks to withdrawal thousands of dollars. It happened on Bladensburg Road and at the Giant at Eastern and Riggs.
What makes the crimes unusual is that the suspect may, themselves, be seniors. Security cameras captured images of a woman, or a man dressed as a woman, and a man who appears to be in his sixties. The same pair has been photographed in two separate abductions. They are armed and police fear someone could get hurt."They've not only done it once, they've done it twice and they've done it to our seniors and that's something we take very personally in Prince George's County," said Major Kevin Davis with Prince George's County Police Department.
Police are beefing up patrols around the stores and banks in the Hyattsville area and trying to get word out to seniors.
"I will try to look out and be careful. That's all I can do," said Anna Chase.
Police are asking bank tellers to be on the lookout for very suspicious withdrawals, like people coming in and for no apparent reason and pulling out thousands of dollars.
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