Discuss “Robbery Suspect Apprehended”

One of the largest crime sprees recently to threaten college campuses around the Oakland area was brought to an end Tuesday night in an underground parking garage.

Carnegie Mellon campus police, as well as police from the University of Pittsburgh, and local city precincts had been on the lookout for over two weeks for a suspect whom police thought to be behind 18 to 22 armed robberies in the Oakland/Shadyside area. Most of the robberies occurred between 8 pm and 12 pm. The search -- which included an unmarked police vehicle patrolling the Oakland neighborhood -- culminated at midnight on the night of February 8, shortly following the commission of four armed robberies in the space of roughly one half hour.

Between 11:30 pm and his apprehension,...