Judge Issues Judicial Summons for Defendant

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A DC Superior Court judge summoned July 8 a defendant with no known address to appear in court Oct. 7 for her next hearing. 

Markea Chambers, 20, i charged with second-degree theft for allegedly stealing a taxi driver’s phone the evening before. According to court documents, the taxi driver saw the defendant and three other women with her flee into a nearby building on the 300 block of Hamilton Street, NE. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers found the phone in a trash can on the fourth floor.

Judge James Crowell issued a judicial summons March 2 after the defendant failed to appear in court for her arraignment when he realized that there was no address to reach her.

A subsequent hearing was scheduled to address the lack of information on her residence, but was ultimately pushed back four months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The summons states that if the defendant fails to appear in court again, a bench warrant will be issued for her arrest.