Motorist helps police catch carjacking suspects Police detained two carjacking suspects on Saturday after a motorist refused to comply with the suspects’ demands.
Gregory Allen Lassiter, 19, of Baltimore, and a 15-year-old boy stole a 2007 Chevy and an ATM card from a woman in Montgomery County on Saturday, according to investigators.
Around noon, the suspects drove the stolen vehicle into the back of a 2010 Toyota on Route 100 in Hanover. They then ran from the scene and forced their way into another car. Lassiter climbed into the passenger seat and demanded that the driver take them to the nearest 7-Eleven convenience store, officials said.
The driver refused and instead kept her car in park, police said.
A nearby off-duty police officer witnessed the incident and immediately arrested the suspects.
Police said they found a small quantity of marijuana inside the stolen Chevy.SClB
Woman wired $25,000 to Vince Young impersonator
Amy Willis, of Springfield, says she was duped into giving $25,000 to an imposter of the NFL quarterback Vince Young.
Willis is the latest victim to come forward in a string of scams involving 33-year-old Stephen Pittman, of Fort. Washington, who was arrested on Friday and charged with felony fraud for allegedly impersonating the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback.
Willis says she met Pittman at a bar in Woodbridge in June, and that Pittman told her he was Young. Pittman persuaded Willis to wire him $25,000 the following week, saying the money would serve as an investment in a spa business that she would run, she said.
“I was called by Wachovia bank telling me that a Stephen Pittman had come into the bank and was withdrawing money at different locations in Maryland and that I had been scammed,” Willis told NBC Washington.
Authorities say Pittman has scammed a number of women into giving him money by impersonating Young at parties and at hospitals.
