Two stick up crews who are together believed responsible for six felony armed robberies on Miami Beach have been arrested, Miami Beach police spokesman Juan Sanchez said.
Franklin Luna Lopez and Dennis Pagoaga, who face three counts of robbery with a firearm, are 18. Daewood Daniel Martinez is 17, and his partner Isaac Alvarez is 20. Both face two counts of robbery with a firearm, with additional charges pending.
Martinez and Alvarez are charged with robbing at gunpoint three friends who stopped to ask them directions while walking last week in the 300 block of Meridian Court.
Police say they also robbed two club-goers walking home early Saturday morning on Commerce Street, threatening to shoot the pair if they didn't hand over their property.
Minutes later, Sanchez says, Martinez and Alvarez approached people sitting in the back of a pickup truck in the 800 block of Meridian Avenue, forced them at gunpoint to lay on their stomachs, pistol-whipped, and threatened to shoot them.
That night officers followed a tip to find a vehicle fitting the description of the pair's getaway car to NW 35th Street in Miami, where police say they found both the suspects and items belonging to the victims.
The two have been charged in the Commerce Street crime, with charges pending in the other two robberies and assault.
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Luna Lopez and Pagoaga are accused of pulling guns on people walking in the 300 block of Meridian Avenue and the 100 and 1600 blocks of beachfront in August and September.
In one incident, police say, a robbery victim was shot in the back of the neck with a BB pellet.
The pair were pulled over in Hialeah on a traffic violation September 30 and shortly confessed to their the crimes when arrested, Sanchez said.
