French Bulldog reunited with owner after stolen from Southeast DC

WASHINGTON ( DC News Now ) — A French Bulldog that was stolen last Saturday was reunited with his owner, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced.

MPD’s Violent Crimes Suppression Division recovered the 2-year-old French Bulldog, “Yurman,” a week after he was stolen while on a walk with his owner.

On Saturday at about 8 a.m., MPD conducted an operation near Pennsylvania Ave and Alabama Ave in Southeast and recovered Yurman.

Yurman’s owner, Jaineen Brown, said she was contacted by someone who claimed they had her dog and would be willing to sell him back to her.

Brown then went to the police with the information.

On June 29 at about 8:20 p.m., Brown was walking Yurman in the 1700 block of Fort Davis Street SE when someone approached her with a gun.

The suspect took her dog and fled the scene in what Brown described as a black Honda Accord.

“He is my emotional support dog. I’m from Akron, Ohio – don’t have very much family here at all, so he is literally my everything,” she said in an interview with DC News Now last Saturday.

On Sunday, MPD said they arrested and charged 27-year-old Raphael Lambert Loundermon II and 27-year-old Khaliah Johnson, both of Southeast D.C., with Extortion and Receiving Stolen Property.

MPD is still working to identify the robbery suspect. A photo of the suspect car can be seen below:

Burglars have targeted French Bulldogs in recent months throughout the District. In late March, a 4-year-old French Bulldog named Recardito was in his owner’s car when someone took him. He was reunited with his owner the next day – something Brown was hopeful for even in the hours after Yurman was taken.

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