Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Three suspects are in custody following to an armed robbery at a Wells Fargo on Lawrenceville Highway in December.
All three suspects in a recent armed robbery of a Wells Fargo bank near Lilburn are now in custody, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's website. Marcus Rashed Rutledge, who was located and arrested Tuesday; Thomas Birdsong, who turned himself in to police after seeing media coverage; and Jamar Terrel, who was arrested shortly after the robbery are all in Gwinnet County Detention Center. All three men face charges of felony armed robbery and are being held without bond. Police believe Terrell and Rutledge were the armed gunmen in the robbery, and that Birdsong acted as lookout during the Dec. 28 robbery of the Wells Fargo, located at 3065 Lawrenceville Highway. See also:
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Gwinnett County Police Department have identified Marcus Rutledge, 24, and Thomas Birdsong, 41, as two robbery suspects who have yet to be located.
Gwinnett County police are looking for two men suspected in the armed robbery of a nearby Wells Fargo bank in unincorporated Lawrenceville. The men: Marcus Rutledge, 24, and Thomas Birdsong, 41, both have active warrants for their arrests in connection with the Dec. 28 robbery near Lilburn. Another man, 26-year-old Jamar Terrell is in custody at the Gwinnett County Detention Center and charged with armed robbery. Terrel is suspected of being one of two armed men who entered the bank, located at 3065 Lawrenceville Highway, about 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 28. Rutledge is suspected as being the second armed robber inside the bank, and Birdsong is believed to have acted as the lookout for the crew, police said in a press release. The two men who …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Two teenagers were recently arrested in last September's robbery of a Lilburn Wells Fargo Bank, ajc.com reported.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Two Stone Mountain teens are in the Gwinnett County jail, charged with the September robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank on Killian Hill, ajc.com reported. Tevin Contrell Jones, 18, was arrested April 16, and Kentay Okera Fields, 17, was taken in on Friday, the report said. The two are allegedly the pair that went into the bank twice, leaving again to change clothes, on Sept. 16, before demanding money from a teller the third time. The teller slipped a dye pack into the bank bag, which exploded when the robbers left the building. Police got a tip, the ajc.com report said, and investigators were able to match prints at the bank from the suspects. After the robbery, Wells Fargo offered as much as $5,000 for information leading to the suspects…
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Two suspects are charged with the August robbery of a Lilburn Wells Fargo Bank and a SunTrust Bank in Norcross, and they may face more charges in a string of bank heists around Metro Atlanta.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Two men have been charged in a series of recent robberies around Metro Atlanta, including that of a Wells Fargo Bank in unincorporated Lilburn and a SunTrust branch in Norcross. Henry Lee Johnson, 20, and Ebanga Asuamah, 27, were arrested and charged with the Lilburn and Norcross robberies, Cpl. Jake Smith of the Gwinnett County police said. Additional charges are being investigated by police in Gwinnett, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and the FBI, Smith said in an email. In the August robbery of the Lilburn Wells Fargo, an armed man took $10,000 from tellers and feld. In November, a man entered the SunTrust Bank in Norcross and demanded cash at gunpoint, jumping up on a counter and threatening the teller. He took about $18,000 and fled. In …
Friday, November 4, 2011
The Wells Fargo Bank on Lawrenceville Highway in Lilburn was robbed for a second time this year.
The Wells Fargo Bank on Lawrenceville Highway was robbed Friday, the second time this year the bank has been hit by robbers. The suspect entered the bank at about 10:35 Friday morning and demanded money in a note to a teller. The bank handed over an undisclosed amount. The suspect drove off in a late-model grey pickup truck with an extended cab, heading in the direction of Tucker, Lilburn Police Captain Ben Haynes said in an emailed statement. The suspect is a black male, between 30-40 years old and about 6 feet tall. He was wearing a brown leather jacket, a black long-sleeved shirt, dark pants and a black toboggan cap. The money bag handed to the suspect had a dye pack, which exploded when the suspect left the bank. He may have red dye …
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Police arrested Charles Tolbert, 46, after he tried to get away by running in the woods.
Police have charged and arrested a man in connection with the robbery of the Regions Bank on Scenic Highway in Snellville, according to law enforcement. Charles Tolbert, 46, of a Windsor Drive, in Snellville, was charged with armed robbery. Additionally, he was served with a warrant for a probation violation. At about 1:20 p.m. Friday, police said Tolbert entered the bank, went to the teller counter and then wrote a note on a deposit slip demanding money. The man claimed to be armed, according to Snellville Police Chief Roy Whitehead. The suspect gave the slip to the teller, and she gave him an undisclosed amount of money. The man then left the bank on foot, running into the woods near LA Fitness on Pinehurst Road. An officer responded to…
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Suspect was identified with the help of the bank robbery video.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
A suspect in last month's RBC Bank robbery was arrested Tuesday in Morrow, Lilburn police said. The suspect, Rayford Aaron Lanham, was identified after the video of the bank robbery was aired a second time and the police got two separate tips from viewers, Lilburn Police Captain Ben Haynes said in an emailed release. Lilburn police learned that Lanham was staying at an abandoned house in Morrow that belonged to his deceased mother. Senior Investigator Kim Banks canvassed the house and saw a car matching the one used in the robbery. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation secured the area until the Clayton County Sheriff's office could arrest the suspect. Lanham was taken to the Clayton County jail and will be brought to Gwinnett. The car was …
Monday, September 26, 2011
Two men robbed a Wells Fargo bank on Killian Hill Road Sept. 16, and the bank is offering as much as $5,000 for information leading to the suspects' arrest.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Gwinnett County police are looking for two suspects in a Sept. 16 robbery at Wells Fargo on Killian Hill in unincorporated Lilburn, and the bank is offering as much as $5,000 for information leading to the suspects' arrest. One suspect is about 6'1 to 6'2" tall and has a medium build. He was clean-shaven and in his early 20s. The other is about 5'2", thin, clean-shaven and also in his early 20s. both men are black, Corporal Jake Smith said in an emailed release. The men entered the bank three times on the day of the robbery, changing clothes each time before re-entering the bank. The third time, they handed the teller a note demanding money. The teller gave the men a bag with money and a dye pack, which exploded after they left the …
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Lilburn police are asking for help in locating the suspect.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
The RBC Bank in Lilburn was robbed Thursday morning of an undisclosed amount of money, Lilburn police said. The suspect is a while male in his late 40s, about 5'11 to 6 feet tall. He has thinning dark hair and was wearing a Minnesota Vikings NFL jersey with the number "29" and the name C. Taylor on the back. The man was driving a maroon-colored, late-model Chevrolet Corsica with damage on the front passenger door. The man entered the bank and gave a note to the teller that demanded money. The bank gave him money, along with a dye pack that exploded, releasing red dye. "The suspect may have red dye stains on his person and may have possbile injuries" from the deployment of the dye pack, Captain Ben Haynes said in an emailed statement. …
Friday, January 28, 2011
Ivy Cromer spoke with police while he followed suspects into DeKalb County
Ivy Cromer had the most eventful and unexpected day of the year in Lilburn on Friday. Cromer, 57, was the witness and 911 caller who helped police apprehend the four people who allegedly committed the Wells Fargo robbery on Lawrenceville Highway. When he pulled into the bank's parking lot at 9 a.m to make a transaction, he immediately saw something fishy when he noticed a woman and two men walking into the bank's entrance. "I was driving by the front door of the bank about 15 feet from them," said Cromer. "I saw the masks go on, the hoodies go up and the gun come out, so I knew what was going on and what I was afraid of." Cromer then drove across Highway 29 to wait. After the suspects emerged, a one or two minutes later, he said the …
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