Four Men Accused for February Robbery of Falls Church Business

Four men connected to a in February have been accused of committing armed robbery and conspiring to commit armed robbery in Eastern Virginia U.S. District Court.

Edgar Geovani Perez-Suniga, Vahelo Alay Escobar, Serfido Trinidad Perez Florian and Estanislao Ramos Perez were responsible for a series of robberies, including three in Dale City, according to a court affidavit.

On Feb. 7 just after noon, three men walked into the store and demanded money from an employee of the business. The men ordered the woman to open the safe and when they noticed she tried to trip the store’s alarm system, one of the men punched her in the face. The woman was also pepper sprayed, she said. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, police said. In all, $48,000 in cash from weekend money wiring transactions to foreign countries was stolen.

Investigators said that a after the robbery of Steven’s Shop in Falls Church matched Vahelo Alay Escobar.