Rep. Henry Cuellar, A Democrat, from Texas has been held up at His vehicle was taken at gunpoint in Washington was reportedly in Washington Monday evening, as per his office. He Police later recovered the car.
Mr. Cuellar had parked on Monday at 9:30 p.m. in the Navy Yard neighborhood, about a mile from Capitol Hill, when three armed people approached him and stole his vehicle, said Jacob Hochberg, the congressman’s chief of staff. The Metropolitan Police Department, along with Capitol Police, are investigating the crime.
Mr. Cuellar’s Mr. Hochberg stated that the iPad and iPhone had also been stolen. He The report did not mention whether the devices were recovered. The Navy Yard is a south-east area of the Capitol where the Washington Nationals’ baseball team plays in their stadium. Over the last decade, the Anacostia River area has seen a boom in construction.
Mr. Cuellar is the representative of a part of South Texas that runs along the border between Mexico and Laredo, Rio Grande City, and extends northward to San Antonio.
