LAUREL, MD – A couple of dog owners who were meeting a person they met online to sell puppies to ended up being robbed of all of their dogs at gunpoint earlier this month. Today, police arrested Rakeem Bates, 25, of Washington, D.C. and recovered one of their dogs.
According to police, on October 2nd, at around 9:00 p.m., officers responded to find victims who indicated that they met the three suspects to sell a dog in the parking lot of Jill Lane and Ertter Drive. When they arrived, two of the suspects brandished firearms and forced the victims to the exterior entrance of their basement floor apartment.
“The suspects took two adult dogs and one puppy. The suspects fled in a dark-colored SUV with tinted windows that was being driven by a white female.,” police reported.
Detectives in Washington, D.C. reported their adult dog, one of the puppies and another suspect are still at-large.
The suspects were described as two black males, armed with handguns and a white female, operating a dark colored, SUV with tinted windows