A 36-year-old Bladensburg man was arrested last month after allegedly pistol-whipping a resident of the Arrive Silver Spring apartment complex during a robbery that police say unfolded just as the victim was stepping out of his own front door. Lucas Graves now faces armed robbery, first-degree assault, and related firearm charges, and he is being held without bond at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit.
According to DC News Now, officers responded to reports of an assault in progress shortly before 3 p.m. on July 18 at the Arrive Silver Spring building in the 8700 block of Georgia Avenue. Police say Graves approached the victim while displaying a handgun as the man was leaving his apartment, then struck him several times in the head with the weapon. The victim fell after being hit, and Graves allegedly took his phone before fleeing, per the outlet’s reporting.
Graves was located and arrested on August 20 by the U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, according to police. The task force, formed in 2004, operates across Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia to track down violent felony fugitives across jurisdictional lines, combining federal agents with deputized state and local officers spanning five federal court districts.
A Familiar Address With a Troubled Past
The Arrive Silver Spring complex at 8700 Georgia Avenue has drawn public attention before. In February 2023, the building was the site of a fatal three-alarm fire that killed one resident and injured 19 others, an incident during which emergency responders broke locks and doors to evacuate occupants and police later arrested a man for burglarizing an evacuated apartment, as reported by NBC Washington via the Montgomery County Police Department…