Crime & Safety

Robberies Left Victims Outdoors in Only Socks, Underwear

Three men are facing armed robbery and related charges in connection with an incident in Whiteford.

Two men were left outdoors, wearing nothing but their underwear and socks in the bitter cold on Friday after they said they were assaulted and robbed in Whiteford.

Three other men—one from Abingdon and two from Bel Air—have been charged in connection with the crime, police said.  Daniel Lewis Rohlfing, 19, of Bel Air, Michael David Wells, 19, of Abingdon,  and Adam Jackson Emery, 20, of Bel Air, each faces a raft of charges including armed robbery, false imprisonment, first-degree assault and gun offenses, according to the Harford County Sheriff's office and court records.

Deputies had been following the green Land Rover in which the three were riding, based on a robbery victims' decription, and made a stop near the old , in Bel Air. The two robbery victims identified the three from the Land Rover as the men who allegedly robbed them, according to Worrell and court records.

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Leading to the arrests, Harford County sheriff's deputies were called to a home on Tabernacle Road in Whiteford after a reported assault, according to Monica Worrell, public information officer with the .

When deputies arrived, they found a man wearing just underwear and socks, Worrell said, and the victim told police he had been assaulted, robbed and left outside near the residence. The robbery victim said that his brother, also of Bel Air, was with him at the time and the armed robbers stripped his brother and took the young man with them, Worrell said.

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Shortly before 3 a.m., deputies were called to Susquehanna Hall Road in Whiteford, where the first man's brother was found in his underwear and socks by a nearby resident, according to . Tabernacle Road and Susquehanna Hall Road are about two miles apart.

“It was in a range of probably between 30 and 35 [degrees], in that range at that time,” said Kevin Witt of the National Weather Service Sterling, VA office.

The first victim said the attackers drove away in a green Land Rover. Deputies later saw a vehicle matching the victims' descriptions at the at Maryland Route 1 and Maryland Route 136 in Dublin. That's when deputies followed the vehicle and made the stop near the old  that ended in the arrests.


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