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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A man and a teenage boy accused of a string of cab robberies in November and December have been arraigned on attempted homicide charges.</p><p>Ibn McClain, 15, and Dashawn McLendon, 21, initially appeared before Magisterial District Judge Thomas Malloy on Thursday for a preliminary hearing. They each faced charges of aggravated assault, robbery, prohibited possession of a firearm and firearms not to be carried without a license.</p><p>The men are accused of several armed cab robberies between Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 4.</p><p>Malloy, however, withdrew those charges and arraigned both on new charges, including attempted criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, prohibited possession of a firearm and firearms not to be carried without a license.</p><p>Their charges stem from <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/498260/wilkes-barre-police-feds-arrest-four-in-connection-with-spree-of-cab-robberies" target="_blank">a shooting on Dec. 4</a> after McClain and McClendon allegedly shot someone who had given the men a ride. During the incident, McClendon allegedly told the victim, &#8220;We going to do you like the taxis.&#8221;</p><p>McClain also faces charges of criminal use of a communication facility, simple assault, possession of a firearm by a minor and receiving stolen property.</p><p>McClain and McLendon, along with Abdullarattman Hanif Ehaira, 22, of Jones Street, and Shaheen Mackey, 39, no known address, were arrested on Dec. 10 at a hotel in South Whitehall Township in Lehigh County following a search involving city police, the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI Safe Streets Task Force and the Pennsylvania State Police Vice Unit.</p><p>Court dockets for Ehaira and Mackey could not be located on Thursday.</p><p>McClain and McLendon are each scheduled for a preliminary hearing before Malloy at 10 a.m. on Feb. 11. Malloy denied bail for both, citing the nature of the charges.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Ibn McClain, 15, is escorted out of court after being arraigned on new charges on Thursday. Travis Kellar | Times Leader </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/web1_McClain.jpg</photo0><caption0>Ibn McClain, 15, is escorted out of court after being arraigned on new charges on Thursday. Travis Kellar | Times Leader </caption0><photoCredit0>Travis Kellar | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/web1_Dashawn-McClendon-4-5-14.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">McLendon </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/web1_Dashawn-McClendon-4-5-14.jpg</photo1><caption1>McLendon </caption1><photoCredit1>Travis Kellar | Times Leader </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Travis Kellar</p><p>tkellar@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Travis Kellar at 570-991-6389 or on Twitter @TLNews</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Two suspects in Wilkes-Barre cab robberies charged with attempted homicide