TRUE CRIME: OUT ON PAROLE

Dallas Police say two of the teens who were arrested in connection with multiple armed robberies in East Dallas on Aug. 2 were on parole for the 2011 capital murder of a man they knocked into a DART train.

Royneco Harris, 18, and Cortney Woods, 17, were charged with aggravated robbery in connection with an Aug. 2 incident in the 4800 block of Bryan Street.

That same night, several suspects robbed two individuals walking in the 700 block of S. Good Latimer at gunpoint. Two of the suspects pointed handguns at the victims and demanded their property. Police say one of the victims sprayed the suspects with mace before fleeing on foot. Harris, Woods and Kristian Rios, 17, also were charged in the S. Good Latimer robbery.

Harris and Woods were on parole for the Nov. 22, 2011, murder of 19-year-old Octavius Lanier.

That day, Lanier stepped off the train at the DART MLK Station in South Dallas, when four teenagers began beating him. The teens eventually pushed him onto the tracks as the train was pulling away.

There was a third robbery on Aug. 2 that was similar to the first two. According to police, the suspects held a man at gunpoint as he entered his apartment in the 4800 block of Junius Street just before 2 a.m. Two of the suspects pointed handguns at the victim and demanded his property before fleeing. DPD have not said if that robbery is connected to the other two.

Anyone with information about the robberies should call Detective C. Cardenas at 214.671.3658. Anonymous tips may be made to Crime Stoppers at 214.373.8477.