A bunch of carjackers in Maryland who tried to rob a restaurateur, Myo Maung, exterior his Bethesda Ramen restaurant had a impolite awakening of their legal exploits. Regardless of pistol-whipping Maung, they had been unable to steal his Porsche as a result of they couldn’t function the handbook gears.
Dashcam footage captured the incident as a crimson Nissan pulled up, and at the least three people confronted Maung late on a Sunday evening.
In a carjacking try exterior the Bethesda Ramen restaurant, one assailant sporting a grey hoodie and a masks brandished a gun and was seen main the enterprise proprietor, Maung, out of the body. Maung was then pistol-whipped and compelled to give up his keys, cellphone, and passport.
The Dashcam footage revealed the carjackers’ battle as certainly one of them, unable to function the stick shift, created noise contained in the Porsche. One other suspect within the entrance passenger seat aimed a handgun on the sports activities automobile after they didn’t steal it throughout the theft incident, as reported by the New York Submit.
Maung later knowledgeable the police that he needed to search cowl within the restaurant — and heard at the least one gunshot. Police didn’t discover any shell casings on the scene within the aftermath of the carjacking try. There’s hypothesis that Maung might need been adopted from Washington DC, the place he had earlier dropped off provides at one other enterprise he co-owns.
Montgomery County police are investigating reviews {that a} crimson Nissan SUV, resembling the one seen within the dashcam footage, had been reported stolen in DC on the identical day. Captain Sean Gagan, head of the Montgomery Police Division’s Main Crimes Division, famous that earlier incidents of people being trailed and focused for his or her automobiles are fairly prevalent.
Based on him, there have been roughly 82 carjackings reported within the county thus far this yr, surpassing the overall of 79 reported in 2022. In the meantime, in Washington DC, over the Thanksgiving weekend alone, town skilled over 900 carjackings.
Captain Sean Gagan famous that the regulation enforcement company is intensifying efforts in areas bordering Washington DC and Prince George’s County to handle the rising variety of carjackings.
He added that further sources, together with uniform patrol and plainclothes property, are being deployed to those areas.
He nevertheless urged individuals to stay vigilant and pressured the significance of staying conscious of their environment, as criminals usually goal distracted people, together with these utilizing their telephones whereas driving.
