MIAMI – “Let it go, b----.”
Those were the words Miami police said a 33-year-old woman heard as a man ran up to her, aimed a gun and snatched her purse as she walked in a parking lot in February.
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Police said the accused robber was arrested a few days later following a pursuit and car crash in Broward County after cops spotted him in a McDonald’s drive-thru. He was brought south to Miami-Dade on Tuesday to face two charges.
D Cedrick Sconyers, 26, of Fort Lauderdale, targeted the woman on Feb. 12 as she was outside the Up Midtown Hotel at 3530 Biscayne Blvd., according to an arrest warrant from the Miami Police Department.
The warrant states the woman “feared for her life” as she surrendered the purse. A bystander heard her screams and tried to help but was then “struck in the back of the head” as he walked towards her, police said.
Police said Sconyers got into an awaiting black sedan and took off.
She received a fraud alert on her cellphone sometime afterward stating that her card was used at the Wawa at 13 S. State Road 7 in Plantation. CCTV footage, police said, showed Sconyers and two other unidentified people getting out of a 2018 Honda Accord at the gas station. Sconyers used her card to purchase gas, authorities said.
Authorities said license plate reader data identified the exact vehicle involved and on Feb. 18, it hit in Fort Lauderdale.
Officers from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department spotted Sconyers in the drive-thru of the McDonald’s at 2300 W. Sunrise Blvd. just after 10 p.m. that night, an FLPD arrest report states.
Authorities said they tried to immobilize the vehicle before he left the restaurant, but he noticed police, reversed over a median and took off.
Police said they attempted a PIT maneuver near I-95 but Sconyers corrected and drove into oncoming traffic, crashing soon after.
The FLPD arrest report states that Sconyers then got out of the sedan and ran towards a silver Ford Mustang in traffic and pulled on the door handle “in a blatant attempt to forcefully enter the vehicle.”
Police said he was unsuccessful and ran into traffic before officers caught up to him and took him into custody on Broward charges of aggravated fleeing and eluding and resisting arrest. He was taken to Broward Health Medical Center for treatment after the crash.
An MPD detective drove north to the hospital to question him, where he made a statement redacted from the arrest warrant.
Sconyers now faces charges of armed robbery and credit card fraud in Miami-Dade.
As of Wednesday afternoon, he was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, jail records show.