Early Saturday morning in Mid-Town Belvedere, a group of teens allegedly surrounded victims on a quiet Central Baltimore block and took off in their car, turning a routine pre-dawn hour into an active crime scene investigation.
Police say officers were called around 3:15 a.m. to the 1400 block of North Calvert Street, where several suspects reportedly demanded property and one displayed a firearm. No injuries were reported, but detectives quickly opened an investigation and began working the area.
According to WBFF, officers described the suspects as four to five male juveniles, with one of them armed with a gun. The group allegedly took property before fleeing in the victim’s vehicle. As of Saturday afternoon, no arrests had been reported, and detectives were asking anyone who witnessed the incident or has video to come forward.
Rising youth involvement in carjackings
tracked several arrests and police warnings about teens using replica or BB-style firearms and so-called “bump-and-rob” tactics, in which a minor collision is used as a setup for a robbery or carjacking. Those trends have pushed investigators to canvass aggressively for surveillance and dash-cam footage after pre-dawn thefts…