NEWS RELEASE
City of Takoma Park Police Department
* 7500 Maple Avenue * Takoma Park, Md 20912
For more information contact:
Public Information Officer (PIO)
Catherine Plevy, 301/891.7142 or 240/338.2901
July 2, 2009 (3:44 p.m.)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chief Ronald A. Ricucci of the Takoma Park Police Department announces the arrest, by Metropolitan Police, of Arnold Hakim, 33, of Washington, D.C., for 1st degree burglary, theft over and destruction of property.
On June 29, 2009, at approximately 1:07 p.m., a Takoma Park Police officer was conducting a routine patrol along Hickory Avenue. As he was passing one of the residences, he noticed a male subject carrying property from a residence while wearing white gloves. The officer made eye contact with the subject and continued driving down Hickory Avenue. The behavior was suspicious enough that warranted the officer stopping his cruiser at the corner of Hickory and Montgomery Avenue to check the tag number on the vehicle he saw the subject get into. While doing so, the officer observed the subject flee in the vehicle at a high rate of speed. The officer began to follow the subject, however, the subject was able to escape the area. The officer returned to the residence on Hickory Avenue and verified that a burglary had in fact just occurred. Contact was made with the residential owner, and a search of the victim’s residence revealed that property had been taken. Entry was made through a right side lower window, which was pried open.
During a neighborhood canvass, a Takoma Park Police detective discovered an open door to another residence on Montgomery Avenue. The rear of the residence was located to the right of the residence on Hickory Avenue which had also been burglarized. Through investigation, the detective found that entry to this residence was made by forcing open a lower rear window. After contacting the victim’s of this residence, it was determined that property was also taken.
The tag number originally taken down by the responding officer on Hickory Avenue led him to Arnold Hakim of Washington, D.C. The officer, having made earlier eye/face contact with the subject, was able to identify Hakim as the subject he observed carrying property out of the residence on Hickory Avenue.
Hakim is being held in the District of Columbia and will be extradited back to Montgomery County to face charges.
Posted by Plevy at July 2, 2009 03:43 PM