City Police Arrest Juvenile in Robbery

By Sam Thrift Friday, October 07, 2011

While investigating the daytime armed robbery of a College of William and Mary student that took place Sunday, Oct. 2, Williamsburg police found evidence to arrest a juvenile suspect for a robbery that took place Sept. 30 in the 1200 block of Richmond Road.

Four men robbed a College student at knifepoint around 12:30 p.m. Sunday in the 500 block of North Henry Street, taking the victim's backpack. While searching for those suspects, city police connected the juvenile suspect to an unreported robbery on Sept. 30.

Police said the victim from the September robbery had his backpack stolen and was assaulted. The victim was not seriously injured during the incident.

The identity of the juvenile suspect is being withheld because of his age.

Police are still looking for the four men responsible for the Oct. 2 robbery. The suspects were between 19 and 25 years old. Two were black and described as wearing either a grey or black hoodie, jeans and sneakers. One black male was described as having short black hair and wearing a grey hoodie, black nylon pants and white sneakers. The fourth suspect, who was white, was described as having dark brown hair, wearing a green jacket with a white stripe, gray jeans and white sneakers.

All four suspects fled on foot in an unknown direction.