Two accused of robberies in pair of parking garages

A pair of robbers held up people in two parking garages around the Strip before the suspects were caught at a third location early Tuesday.

Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested two men, identified later as Johnny A. Terrell Jr., 23, and Marquan A. Jackson, 24. They each face robbery, assault and grand larceny of an automobile charges. Terrell also faces weapons-related counts.

The first robbery was reported about 11:15 p.m. Monday at the Treasure

Island parking garage, according to Metro Lt. David Gordon.

A 71-year-old woman, her adult daughter and juvenile granddaughter were walking through the garage when two men “battered” them before taking money and property from them, he said. The men then fled in a van.

At 11:30 p.m. an 18-year-old man and his girlfriend, also 18, were robbed near Neiman Marcus in the Fashion Show mall parking garage, Gordon said. Two men, one of whom was armed, approached them, demanded money and property and fled.

A short time later, a patrol officer spotted two men matching the robbers’ description and their vehicle inside the

SLS Las Vegas parking garage. The pair rammed a patrol car while trying to escape, but no officers were inside. After a short foot chase, police arrested both men.