DC Man Convicted In Kidnapping, Multiple Rapes, Robbery Of Prince George's Woman

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A jury has returned its verdict in the case of a Washington, D.C., man charged in connection to the December 2018 kidnapping, robbery, and multiple rapes of a total stranger in Prince George's County.

According to court documents, Mark A. Blue, 34, along with a co-conspirator, targeted the victim who was walking home from a bus stop in Prince Georges County. Blue removed her clothes, robbed her, forced her into a car, threatened to kill her, covered her eyes with a shirt so she could not see, then sexually assaulted her in Maryland.

Then Blue drove her to southeast Washington, D.C., where he forced her to give him her ATM information. His co-conspirator drained her bank account of nearly everything as Blue assaulted her again. Blue drove the victim to an alley where both men sexually assaulted her yet again. They left her naked in an alley, with her shirt covering her head, according to court documents.

At the time of the attack, Blue was under supervised release for a 2013 armed robbery conviction. Portions of his conduct were captured by surveillance footage and ATM cameras. Two days after the incident, Blue quit his job and moved to North Carolina. A tipster, who recognized Blue’s mugshot on a television news show, called law enforcement. The tipster stated that Blue had said he was wanted by police for robbing and kidnapping a girl. Blue was arrested Jan. 29, 2019, in North Carolina and has remained in custody since the time of his arrest, according to prosecutors.

The jury found Blue guilty of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping while armed, robbery while armed and two counts of first degree sexual abuse while armed.