Man arrested near the restaurant Tuesday night.
The Prince George’s County Police Department arrested a Washington, D.C. man Tuesday in connection to last week’s Shanghai Tokyo strong-armed robbery, according to a PGPD press release. Police arrested James Lakeen Turner, 18, of the 400 block of Lebaum Street, around 7:20 p.m. after a brief chase on foot. He later confessed his involvement in the crime, according to police. The arrest comes five days after the theft, in which a purse and iPhone were snatched from a diner at the restaurant around 4 p.m. According to restaurant spokesman Dave Baker, the woman was sitting quietly in the restaurant wearing headphones. Security cameras caught the suspect’s image as he entered the restaurant. According to police, these images helped find the …
Owner Joe Chen bought an iPhone for a customer after her cell phone was snatched.
The woman robbed of her purse and iPhone in Friday’s strong-armed robbery at Shanghai Tokyo Restaurant at 8300 Baltimore Ave. received a bittersweet surprise earlier this week: a new iPhone, courtesy of restaurant owner Joe Chen. The gift comes after an unidentified male approached the woman—sitting quietly in a corner of the restaurant with headphones in—and grabbed her purse and fled. The robbery occurred around 4 p.m. Restaurant spokesman David Baker says Chen bought the iPhone for the victim as a way to demonstrate his loyalty to customers. “Joe’s motto is ‘no customer, no business,’” Baker said in an e-mail to Patch. “I think his very generous act proves it’s more than a cutline for him!” Baker added no new developments have …
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