Five lifeguards robbed in Manassas

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By Amanda Stewart

Published: August 23, 2008

Five men were robbed at an apartment in the 10800 block of Gambril Drive in Manassas around 11:40 p.m. Thursday, Prince William County police said.

The victims, three 20-year-olds and two 21-year-olds,  were working in the United States as lifeguards for the sum-mer and living in Manassas.

They reported that three men entered their apartment through an unlocked rear screen door.

The robbers implied that they had a weapon and began rifling through the apartment, police said.

The robbers took cash, laptop computers, a camera, luggage, passports and other items from the apartment. The first robber is described as a black male between the ages of 18 and 30. He was about six feet, two inches tall with a muscular build—weighing approximately 230 pounds. He wore a black half-mask, a black hoodie, sneakers and latex gloves at the time of the incident.

The second robber is described as a white male between the ages of 18 and 30. He was about six feet, three inches tall and had a thin build—weighing approximately 200 pounds. He wore a costume mask, a black hoodie, Nike shoes and latex gloves at the time of the incident.

The third robber is described as a black male between the ages of 18 and 30. He was about five feet, ten inches tall with a thin build—weighing approximately 170 pounds. He wore a costume mask, a dark hoodie, sneakers and latex gloves at the time of the incident.

The victims were not harmed.

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Posted by ( JoeDaBeast ) on August 26, 2008 at 6:43 am

Who comes to the US to work as lifeguards, and to Northern VA at that?  Head south, Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, or west to California or Arizona.

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Posted by ( phdee ) on August 24, 2008 at 11:39 am

I thought crime in Manassas and PWC was down = at least according to athe anti-immigration crowd and the pro-resolution folks. And especially since the claim is the resolution is worjing, i.e. immigrants have or are being driven out of the county. Yet, it seems the papers keep reporting on crimes. Well, somebody is wrong.

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Posted by ( drwho ) on August 24, 2008 at 7:27 am

Welcome to America.

Come here to fill these jobs no one else will do, work all summer in the sun and then be robbed by thugs.

They will now return home to tell this horror story to their home Countries. America is still the ‘wild west’.  The sad part is it true.

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