Carjackers return to scene of crime | Maryland Gazette (HometownGlenBurnie.com)

County police arrested the trio at about 4 a.m., charging them after a violent, botched carjacking. The teens ran once they learned their target was protected by an electronic tracking device, but not before they pulled a gun and punched a pregnant woman in the stomach.

Once officers chased them down, they discovered the teenagers drove to the neighborhood in a stolen car - carjacked just three days earlier on the same block. One of them even had the keys to the stolen car in his pocket, police said.

"It's brazen of them to commit such a crime," said Sgt. John Gilmer, police spokesman. "Our officers in the field did an excellent job of apprehending them as quickly as they did and they should definitely be commended."

Police charged Rashad Tyree Knight, 18, of the 6400 block of Freedom Drive in Glen Burnie, Rashard Anton Watkins, 17, of Baltimore and Travis Jawan, 17, of Baltimore with attempted robbery, assault, armed carjacking and handgun violations in connection with yesterday's robbery.

Charges were pending yesterday afternoon in Saturday's carjacking.

On that morning, a woman told police she was leaving her car on the 300 block of Arden Road West about 12:30 a.m. when two black teenagers wearing white tank tops and dark colored pants approached her in the alley behind her house.

One of teens brandished a silver handgun as he threw the woman up against a vehicle and demanded her purse.

When she told him she did not have a purse, the teenagers reached into her pocket and took her cell phone and keys. They then got into her blue 2007 Toyota Yaris and drove away, police said. Three days later, police say one of the same teens pulled the handgun again as they confronted two men and a woman in the same block.

This time, one of the victims told police the gun was placed to his head, and the woman was assaulted after she told them about the car's LoJack system, a stolen vehicle recovery unit.

Officers quickly flooded the area and found the stolen blue Toyota Yaris. Moments later, officers spotted the teenagers as they tried to run from the neighborhood and captured them after a brief chase.

The victims in yesterday's robbery identified all three teenagers, and police recovered the handgun.

The incidents were at least the third and fourth carjacking in a week in north county.

On Thursday, police charged three people with two carjacking attempts in Glen Burnie and Pasadena. Police said the trio tried to rob someone of their keys 10 minutes apart, with one of them getting a punch in the face in the second attempt.

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