The CHRON: A Harris County man has been arrested for allegedly tying up two women and robbing them at gunpoint, court records show.
Deroderick Stephens, 25, has been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, according to court records filed with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. He was being held Tuesday in the Harris County Jail on $50,000 bond.
A woman told Houston police that a man knocked on the door of her northwest Houston apartment in May 2011, and he asked if someone lived there whom she did not know, court records show. The woman said no and the man left.
The man returned later and pointed a semi-automatic pistol at the woman, and he ordered her on the ground, a criminal affidavit filed in the case states. Two other men entered the apartment, and the suspects awoke the woman’s mother who was visiting.
They tied both women’s hands with a phone charger cord and a clothes iron cord, prosecutors said.
During the robbery, one of the men stuffed a T-shirt in the daughter’s mouth and threatened to shoot her, according to an arrest warrant filed in the case. Police said the suspects’ faces were not covered during robbery.
A witness later came forward to say the the suspect had borrowed his cell phone to make a call just before the robbery, records show. Police called the two numbers to track Stephens down.
The women identified Stephens in a photo lineup. Police are looking for two other suspects in the case.
