Fort Worth Police said they have arrested two men in connection with armed robberies connected to Facebook Marketplace transactions.<\/p>\n
Police said on Saturday, August 15, officers responded to a series of armed robberies connected to those transactions.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Police said in a press release that the arrests were the result of a team effort with Central Patrol, the Real Time Crime Center (RTCC), Directed Response Unit (DRU), FLOCK technology, and Robbery Detectives. Officers were able to identify a silver Honda sedan matching the suspect vehicle description.<\/p>\n
The same day, officers detained 21-year-old Jeremiah Ross when they said they saw him running with a firearm, and 20-year-old Davontate Ashley was detained during what police described as a “high-risk traffic stop.”<\/p>\n
Investigators determined the two were involved in the robberies, and stolen property was recovered during a search warrant. Both were arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n
Police want this to serve as a reminder to the public that when using online marketplaces, think of safety first.<\/p>\n
You should always meet in a public place, during daylight hours. Bring someone with you and consider using a designated safe exchange location when available. They said if something doesn’t feel right, you should leave and contact the police immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Police said they have arrested two men in connection with armed robberies connected to Facebook Marketplace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-419213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}