Police began tracking an uptick in robberies across Baltimore in late April, according to public data.
The Baltimore Police Department’s public crime map shows that the number of robbery cases fluctuates per week.
For example, there were as few as 24 robberies between Feb. 23 and March 1, according to the data.
Six weeks later, the number of those robberies nearly tripled.
The data shows that between April 20 and April 26 there were 69 robberies.
That number dropped in the following days, though, with 29 robberies recorded between April 27 and March 2, according to the data.
The map categorizes carjackings and commercial robberies separately, so they are not included in that number.
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Robbery victims have endured a variety of tribulations ranging from theft of property to gunshot injuries.
The armed suspects who robbed them have used mopeds, bicycles, and rental bicycles to flee from their crimes.
On April 30, two teenagers robbed a 44-year-old man of of his moped in the 1300 block of East Eager Street around 9 p.m. They may have been armed with a gun, according to authorities.
Police said they detained the teenagers, a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, after a description of them was provided to officers across the city.
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That’s when investigators learned that the two boys were already in the custody of police for a robbery involving a moped that happened in the 1600 block of Rutland Avenue.
The 16-year-old boy was taken to the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Facility where he was charged with armed robbery.
Meanwhile, the 14-year-old boy was taken to the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center and placed on electronic monitoring.
Less than five hours later, on May 1, a 24-year-old man was shot during a robbery gone wrong near the 600 block of North Curley Street, according to authorities.
The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Investigators could be seen collecting evidence from an alleyway behind North Curley Street.
Later that day, around 1:20 p.m., a person was robbed of their belongings by a male with a gun in the 1400 block of Claremont Street. Police said the suspect followed the victim from the 1600 block of Gough Street.
After the male robbed the victim, he “fled the location on a gray pedal bike,” Baltimore Police Department spokesperson Donny Moses said in an email.
Then, around 1:50 p.m., there was an armed robbery in the 5600 block of O’Donnell Street.
Police said two people were robbed by four males, and one of them was armed with a pocket knife.
Moses said the males stole the clothing that those people had intended to sell. Then, they “escaped on two electrical rental bikes,” he said.
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