Two 17-year-olds had been arrested Monday after Dallas police mentioned they robbed somebody at gunpoint at a North Dallas condominium, and police consider they dedicated a variety of different robberies in latest weeks.
Giovanni Martinez faces one depend every of aggravated theft, evading arrest and failure to depart ID on the scene of an accident, and Abraham Leone faces fees of aggravated theft and evading arrest. It was unclear whether or not they had attorneys.
Officers responded to a name about an aggravated theft within the 13000 block of Montfort Drive, close to Interstate 635, at about 1 p.m. Monday. The sufferer informed police the robbers fled in a silver Toyota sedan.
Officers discovered the sedan touring east on Park Lane at Ridgecrest Street in Vickery Meadow, but it surely fled a visitors cease, police mentioned. The sedan then crashed into one other automobile at a fuel station on Abrams Street and Royal Lane in Lake Highlands, the place the occupants bought out and ran.
Surveillance footage launched by police exhibits the automobile rushing north on Abrams, hanging a pickup within the intersection and plowing by way of bushes exterior the fuel station. It then crashes right into a automobile parked by a gas pump. Two individuals run out of the automobile, and considered one of them is stopped by two witnesses.
Police mentioned the opposite suspect was discovered at a close-by condominium complicated. Police mentioned they discovered two handguns, two black ski masks and cash within the automobile.
Martinez and Leone are believed to be accountable for at the least 10 different aggravated robberies in June and July, police mentioned. Within the different crimes, the robbers drove the same automobile and demanded property at gunpoint, police mentioned.
Each teenagers are being held within the Dallas County jail. Bail is ready at $102,000 for Leone and $110,500 for Martinez.
The investigation is ongoing, police mentioned.