D.C. police arrested Jamari Brighthaupt after a Friday robbery at a pharmacy in the 1700 block of 11th Street NW ended with a vehicle crash and a foot chase. The 25-year-old from Southeast D.C. now faces robbery while armed gun, firearm, and resisting arrest charges.
Police said Brighthaupt entered the pharmacy wearing a black ski mask and demanded prescription medications. He then jumped over the counter and made additional demands while brandishing a firearm, before fleeing with stolen prescription drugs.
11th Street NW Arrest
Police located Brighthaupt after he crashed his vehicle, then said he ran on foot in the 1500 block of North Capitol Street NW. A firearm and prescription drugs were recovered at the scene. For readers trying to trace the case, the sequence matters: the robbery, the getaway, the crash, and the arrest all happened on Friday, turning one incident into a chain of charges.
The recovered drugs were part of the theft reported from the pharmacy, and the firearm recovery adds a separate criminal allegation tied to the same encounter. D.C. police said Brighthaupt was 25 and from Southeast D.C., placing the arrest in a case that began in Northwest Washington and ended elsewhere after the crash.
North Capitol Street NW Chase
Police did not say how the vehicle crashed before the foot chase, and they did not say what specific prescription medications were taken. What they did lay out was enough for the arrest to move quickly from scene response to charges: robbery while armed gun, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, felon in possession of a firearm, resisting arrest and similar charges. A separate robbery report follows a different case and does not change the facts in this one.
Brighthaupt’s case now turns on the charges tied to what police said happened inside the pharmacy and during the escape. The most immediate public question is narrower than the headline: exactly which prescription drugs were taken, and how that theft fits the firearm allegation that followed him out of the store.
