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BY KEITH EPPS
Three young Stafford men charged with luring potential robbery victims through an online classified advertising service are in custody.
The two victims both responded to ads on Craigslist on July 18, Stafford Sheriff's spokesman Bill Kennedy said.
Both incidents occurred just a few hundred yards from the Sheriff's Office and took place about 30 minutes apart.
A 40-year-old Ruther Glen man came to the courthouse with his wife that evening, hoping to buy a PlayStation 3 he'd found on Craigslist.
During e-mail exchanges, police said, he and the seller had agreed on a meeting place. After arriving at the courthouse, the victim got another e-mail directing him to nearby Red Oak Drive.
Instead of buying a Play-Station, the Ruther Glen man had a bottle swung at him by one of the three young men who met him there.
The man went straight to the Sheriff's Office and reported the incident.
That victim was still talking to police when a 22-year-old Dumfries man came to the same area in response to another Craigslist ad, this one for an iPhone.
He was discussing the price with the three suspects when one of them punched him in the face.
The victim ran to the Sheriff's Office with the suspects in pursuit. They stopped chasing the victim as he neared the office.
Deputy Brandon Morris' investigation resulted in the arrests of Rashad Jamar Lightfoot, 19, Jarren Arees Fields, 20, and Adrian Marquelle Clark, 20.
Lightfoot and Clark are charged with two counts of attempted robbery, two counts of conspiracy, attempted assault by mob and malicious wounding. They are being held in the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond.
Fields is charged with attempted robbery, conspiracy and attempted malicious wounding. He is being held under a $15,000 bond.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
Email: kepps@freelancestar.com
