Gunmen Stick Up Occupants Of Car Parked Outside Providence Strip Club: Cops

PROVIDENCE, RI — The occupants of a car parked outside a Providence strip club were robbed at gunpoint and the crooks then led the law on a high-speed chase that ended in West Greenwich when their vehicle was disabled with stop sticks, police said.

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Two men walked up on a vehicle parked outside Wonderland strip club on Allens Avenue early Sunday morning, "displayed firearms and demanded property," Kristy dosReis, the chief public information officer for the Providence Department of Public Safety, said in an email.

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The gunmen "took multiple personal items from the victims before fleeing the scene in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee with Rhode Island registration," dosReis said. "A third, unarmed suspect was also involved."

Rhode Island State Police troopers located the getaway car and chased it down Interstate 95 to West Greenwich, dosReis said.

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"West Greenwich Police deployed stop sticks, disabling the vehicle and ending the pursuit," she said. "Three suspects were taken into custody by State Police and West Greenwich Police."

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The three men, Victor Encarnacion, 38, Bulaon Hawkins, 31, and Roberto Cales, 35, were each charged with robbery and conspiracy.

"A firearm was recovered along I-95 South, and several items reported stolen during the robbery were located inside the vehicle," dosReis said.

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