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BLVD sandwich robber arrested

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When deputies caught up to Tariq Mohammad on Lancaster Boulevard near Fern Avenue, he was eating this stolen sandwich, Sheriff’s officials said. (Photo courtesy LASD)
When deputies caught up to Tariq Mohammad on Lancaster Boulevard near Fern Avenue, he was eating this stolen sandwich, Sheriff’s officials said. (Photo courtesy LASD)

LANCASTER – A BLVD beggar was arrested Wednesday morning for stealing a sandwich from a 24-year-old woman.

Tariq Mohammad allegedly threatened to harm the woman if she did not give up the sandwich she’d just purchased from Brooklyn Deli, Sheriff’s officials said. The woman complied and ran away, and then 29-year-old Mohammad was arrested minutes later, according to a press release from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station. Read it below:

 A Lancaster Deputy was “flagged-down” by a female on Lancaster Blvd for a robbery which had just occurred.

The victim told the deputy that she was threatened by an adult male demanding she give him the sandwich she had just purchased from a nearby deli.

The suspect initially begged for the sandwich, but the victim refused to give it to him. The suspect next became more aggressive and threatened to harm her if she didn’t give it to him.

Fearing for her safety she gave the suspect the sandwich, then ran away for help.

The deputy located the suspect, later identified as Tariq Mohammad, minutes later on the Blvd.

Suspect Mohammad was transported to the Lancaster Station Jail for booking. He was arrested for robbery and felony vandalism to county property.

He was held on $50,000 bail.

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33 comments for "BLVD sandwich robber arrested"

  1. I’ve been in the AV for 29 years and this whole town is now unsafe. The public high schools are embarrassing.

  2. Hmmmm . . . these people network really well about where the handouts are. The Antelope Valley Rescue Mission is less than two miles from the Blvd and serves 2 hot meals a day as well as offering other services to the homeless.
    Problem wasn’t hunger.
    Problem is a disregard for the law, for the rights of others, and a violent nature.
    How long will anyone keep shopping the Blvd if it is dangerous for women to go there?

    • People are shopping the BLVD? When? Where? I guess you can consider pints of craft beer at Kinetic, lunch at Lemon Leaf and and too many drinks for drunk twenty something’s at BeX as shopping. My wife and girls avoid the BLVD like the plague. The stolen sandwich says it all.

      • Shopping? Too funny. There are only about 2 blocks worth ‘strolling’ where Bex and the other restaurants are. The western end of the BLVD is pretty much what was already there, banks, and other non-shopping type businesses.

        The BLVD was so ‘well thought out’ (sarcasm)

        The homeless and the skateboarder issues were bound to happen because of the location.

        I don’t hear Rex boast about the BLVD any longer. Does he have a short attention span or is there nothing to brag about?

        Of course, all the solar farms and rooftop solar panels will bring business to the BLVD. (more sarcasm)

    • I am betting the problem is either drugs, alcohol or mental illness – any person of sound mind would know you can’t rob someone of their sandwich and expect to get away with it.

  3. It’s a good thing it wasn’t me… You toucha my corned beef, I breaka you face!

  4. We work hard for the things we have for some bum to come and threaten anyone for food? What’s next ? Smh.well he’ll be fed good in mcj.

  5. That sandwich looks very tasty I think I will eat at Brooklyn Deli today, sorry to here this happened.

  6. The average American is only 2 paychecks away from becoming homeless. May you never see a sidewalk as your new home……and really? A story about a sandwich robbery? AV Times, please focus more on positive stories and education, by the way, all high schools in the AV are less than a month away from graduation. Highlight some great students with excellent potential and a bright future. A sandwich? Give me a break!

    • HELLO THATS WHAT THE VALLEY PRESS IS FOR! YES, FOR THE FEEL GOOD STORIES OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY, YOU SHOULD BUY IT ITS ONLY $0.75

  7. While the city of LA is cleaning up downtown moving people out here, sad to say there’s more dogs than there is homeless people there! Lol!
    True we have lots of beggars an it’s sad. There’s does that are really just looking for a meal an there’s does that try an hustle money from people! obviously there was something wrong with this guy! Just glad I don’t shop at the blvd! Don’t want some bum robbing me for my Doritos! Lol

  8. I would have gladly given him my sandwich. Maybe even asked him to come back in the deli to see if he wanted anything else. Lastly, if I could swing it, give him a gift card for food later on.
    Come on people. We have food. We have a roof. Share if you can. This man was hungry.

    • Kathleen: Why don’t you go rent a big bus, drive around the AV and pick up as many bums as you can and take them over to your house. You have a roof and food,, then they can all move in with you. And while you are at work they could baby sit your kids.

      • @ John I agree with your comment….@kathleen i understand but he should have asked for food and he should not have threatened to harm the woman.

        • The threat was over the line, agreed. However the narcissism shown around here towards the hungry and possibly mentally ill is just as out of line.

    • Kathleen Robison—Grace Resources less than a block away; Salvation Army a couple blocks away; a place off of Division between J and K that feeds 6 days a week. There is always some place a hungry person can go to eat in Lancaster. People network on the streets and they know what is going on at any given moment. Some thing else was going on with this man. Hopefully he will get help.

  10. The guy was obviously starving. I guess we can feed him in jail… Sad system. =/

  11. That is soo sad. I would have asked him if he would like another. Because apparently he was starving. Now he goes to jail. I’m sure she was shaken , but it was only a sandwich. Well at least he can get food in jail.

    • Wrong is wrong hungry or not!!! There is help out there if you take the time to look for it the right way!!

    • Only a sandwhich??..he is lucky he is alive…you dont threaten people with harm and not expect people to react…thank god the young lady is safe. Anyone that is upset cause he was hungry can go feed him. He comes near my daughter or wife and he will need police protection

    • With the amount of GR these crack heads receive they don’t deserve any money. Maybe they should stop selling there food stamps so early in the month

    • Hey mm: Why don’t you do something about it. Go downtown pick up these so called homeless/starving people and have them all move in with you?