District Man Indicted on Enhanced Second-Degree Theft While on Release on Another Case for Retail Theft

            WASHINGTON – On April 3, 2024, Darryl Robinson, 37, of Washington, D.C., was indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on three counts of second-degree theft (felony) and GPS tampering stemming from events occurring between February 4, 2024, and March 10, 2024, U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Pamela Smith, of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced.

           Robinson is to be arraigned on April 11, 2024, at a hearing before a Superior Court judge.

            According to the government’s evidence, on February 4, 2024, Robinson went into a CVS in Northwest Washington, D.C., took merchandise from the store shelves, and walked out of the store past all points of sale without paying. He then returned on February 9, 2024 to the same CVS and again took merchandise from the store shelves and walked out of the store past all points of sale. On March 5, 2024, Robinson was seen on ring camera taking a package off the front porch of a residence on 10th Street SE, Washington DC. Robinson was arrested on March 10, 2024, with a failed GPS tampering device. All of the offenses were committed while the defendant was on release in another Superior court case.

            Robinson has two or more prior theft convictions, though not from the same occasion, and therefore is subject to enhanced penalties for his alleged theft, including a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in jail for the count of theft for which he is indicted.

            Since September 1, 2023, including the aforementioned case, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has indicted 37 cases involving a felony second-degree theft charge based on a defendant’s two or more prior theft convictions, not from the same occasion.

            This case was investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.  It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rana Wahdan.

            An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a violation of criminal laws and every defendant is presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.