Serial Armed Robber Who Stole Delivery Vehicles, Shot At A Man Sentenced

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A serial armed robber who targeted delivery workers in Maryland and Washington, D.C., has been sentenced for his role in a string of armed carjackings.

Rubin Raphael Bordeaux, 36, from Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty Sept. 12, 2024, to carjacking and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. His criminal spree included shooting a victim, leading police on an eight-mile chase in a stolen Amazon van, a car crash and a foot chase, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

On Nov. 9, 2023, around 1:30 p.m., a UPS driver was sorting packages in the back of her truck in Upper Marlboro. Bordeaux and a co-conspirator jumped into the back of the UPS truck and the co-conspirator was armed, according to police. The co-conspirator told the UPS driver to “Calm down. I just need your wallet and keys.” He took the UPS driver’s keys and ordered her to show him how to drive the UPS truck. The UPS driver complied then the co-conspirator threw the UPS driver’s phone in her direction and took off driving the truck. Bordeaux followed the UPS truck in a pickup truck. Eventually Bordeaux and his co-conspirator stopped to unload packages from the UPS truck and abandoned the vehicle in Upper Marlboro, according to court documents.

An hour later, Bordeaux and the co-conspirator targeted a FedEx driver in Oxon Hill who was on a break. They used the pickup truck to box in the FedEx driver. Bordeaux jumped out of the pickup and pulled a gun on the driver, then demanded the keys. The FedEx driver turned over the keys and the co-conspirator followed Bordeaux driving the FedEx truck. Police found the FedEx truck abandoned and empty of packages in Washington, D.C., according to court documents.

Four days later on Nov. 13, 2023, Bordeaux and a co-conspirator targeted an Amtrak truck. The driver was sitting inside the vehicle while co-workers were inside getting breakfast at a restaurant. Bordeaux, wearing a mask, approached the running vehicle. The Amtrak driver got out of the truck, thinking it was a co-worker. Bordeaux ordered the drive to give him the truck. When the Amtrak driver was slow to react, Bordeaux pulled out a gun and demanded again that he give him the vehicle. He turned over the truck to Bordeaux and drove off, followed by the co-conspirator in a gray sedan. The Amtrak truck was abandoned in Washington, D.C., after it had endured $27,883 in damage, according to court documents from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The next day, Bordeaux and co-conspirators targeted a shopper and her young child in a store parking lot in Forestville. One of co-conspirators approached the woman at her car and demanded her keys, then grabbed them out of her hands. That suspect took off to Washington, D.C., in the car, which was abandoned in southeast D.C. Immediately after leaving the vehicle, they saw an Amazon delivery driver walking to his work van, court documents showed.

Bordeaux and a co-conspirator walked up to him and the driver took off running. Bordeaux and a co-conspirator both fired a shot at the driver who stopped and surrendered. Bordeaux dug through the Amazon driver's pockets looking for the keys and threatened him. Bordeaux took off in the Amazon van and led the police on an eight-mile-long chase crossing from the District of Columbia into Maryland. During that chase, Bordeaux hit several vehicles, including a police car. He stopped the vehicle on a sidewalk in Capitol Heights and took off on foot but was apprehended, according to court documents.

Bordeaux has been sentenced to 192 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.