Crime & Safety

Youths Armed With Gun Take Bicycles In Reston: Police

Police are looking for two juveniles in the Reston area after a report of an armed robbery.

Police are looking for two juveniles in the Reston area after a report of an armed robbery.
Police are looking for two juveniles in the Reston area after a report of an armed robbery. (Image via FCPD)

RESTON, VA — Two youths -- one of whom was armed with a handgun -- made off with the bicycles of two other juveniles in Reston last week.

The two victims were walking with their bicycles near the intersection of North Shore Drive and Wainwright Drive at around 8:09 p.m. on Aug. 15 when "they were approached by two other juveniles who displayed a handgun and demanded their bicycles," according to a report from the Fairfax County Police Department.

The suspects, both male, took the bicycles and fled, the report states.

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Police described one of them as wearing a blue shirt and black shorts, and the other as wearing a white shirt and black dots.

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