2 men rescued from Bethesda hotel ledge after armed robbery
Two men, who were stuck on a Bethesda, Maryland, hotel ledge during an attempted armed robbery, were rescued by police early in the morning of New Year’s Day.
Two men who were stuck on the ledge of a ninth-floor hotel room at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Democracy Boulevard were brought down around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, according to a social media post from the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.
A spokesman with Montgomery County police told WTOP they received the call around 12:40 a.m. and arrived to find the men on the narrow hotel ledge.
The two men were inside the hotel when another man entered the room and tried to rob them with a gun. The spokesman said the men “somehow felt the safest escape route was to climb out on the ledge,” where they were stuck for over an hour.
Fire and rescue crews used a ladder truck to bring the men down. Neither was injured.
The suspect was arrested, police said.
Authorities have not released additional details and an investigation is ongoing.