Two men and a teenager have been charged in a series of armed robberies that unfolded in Center City and North Philadelphia last fall.
A combination of “old policing and new policing” led to the arrests of Carlos Bristow, 28, Nyere Gredic, 24, and Hasan Robinson, 17, District Attorney Larry Krasner said Monday. The trio allegedly stole license plate tags and committed multiple robberies at gunpoint last September and October. They belonged to a 31st Street gang in South Philadelphia, prosecutors said.
Investigators connected the suspects with a wave of unsolved crimes after the men crashed a stolen white Honda sedan along the 2400 block of Kelly Drive last October, prosecutors said. The collision marked the conclusion of a high-speed pursuit that began on the 2100 block of North 19th Street. In a search of the vehicle, police uncovered two firearms, several cellphones and credit cards belonging to people who reported being robbed in the city…