Las Vegas Strip robbery suspects arrested in casino parking garage

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

Metropolitan Police Department arrested the two men, identified later as Johnny A. Terrell Jr., 23, and Marquan A. Jackson, 24, in the overnight robbery spree. 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 and demanded money and property, then fled after the teens handed over their belongings.

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 as they were running out of the garage.

Just after 1 a.m. Tuesday officers taped off the entrance to the SLS on Paradise Road. Police were seen walking through the rear parking garage and running up the stairs. About an hour later, officers loaded a man in handcuffs into the back of a police vehicle.

It’s unclear if that man was arrested in connection with the robberies.

While the entrance was blocked off, taxis and rideshare drivers dropped guests off on the sidewalk outside. They were allowed to enter the casino.

Jennifer Cote and her husband were dropped in front of the SLS by their Lyft driver, and stopped to take photos of police outside the scene.

“We don’t see police out like this where I’m from,” the newlywed from Oklahoma said. “Not this many at once.”

The couple flew into Las Vegas over the weekend for a long honeymoon and said they were treating the police presence as “just another part of the Vegas experience.”

Contact Max Michor at 702-383-0365 or mmichor@reviewjournal.com.Follow @MaxMichor on Twitter. Review-Journal staff writer Mike Shoro contributed to this report.