Dominique Trevun Thornton
Dallas police arrested one man and are still looking for another believed to have robbed eight people in Oak Lawn early Sunday.
Phuc Nguyen, 20, was arrested Sunday after his vehicle was linked to the description of the vehicle involved in the robberies, Sr. Cpl. Sherri Jeffrey said.
The other suspect, described as a light-skinned Hispanic male in his 20s with a thin build, has not been arrested.
Police responded to the first robbery at about 1:45 a.m. in the 3300 block of Crestview Drive. Six people were held up by two men with handguns as they were walking inside the apartment complex from the parking lot, according to the police report.
The two suspects approached them and held them at gunpoint before fleeing with their wallets and cellphones.
An hour later, a woman called police to report that two suspects with similar descriptions had stolen her purse in the 5100 block of Vandelia Street. Around the same time, two more people were robbed in the 3100 block of Hudnall Street. Two suspects demanded they give them all their property, according to the report.
No one was injured in the robberies.
Dallas police also arrested a suspect in connection to the robberies along Katy Trail last weekend. Dominique Trevun Thornton, 22, was arrested Saturday after he was stopped for speeding in Grand Prairie.
Thornton is one of two men police believe robbed a man and a woman near the Katy Trail in the early hours of May 13 and a man running on the trail around 6 a.m. Police have since increased patrols along the trail.
The second man police are searching for is described as a black male in his 20s. He is 5’8” – 6’2” tall and weighs 150-160 pounds. The men were reportedly seen in a gray four-door sedan, which police think could be a Chrysler or Chevy Impala.
