Two Men Arrested in Armored Car Robbery Spree

Gwinnett County police have charged two men in connection with a string of violent armored car robberies across the metro Atlanta area recently, including one in Toco Hill Shopping Center on March 15 that .

Police arrested Stacey Lamont Dooley and Quinton Lamar Booker earlier today. Dooley is charged with three counts of armed robbery committed in Gwinnett County and two counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Booker is also charged with three counts of armed robbery.

They have not been charged in the Toco Hill Shopping Center robbery that left 32-year-old armored car guard Gary Castillo dead. DeKalb County police are investigating that incident. Gwinnett County police also expect to file additional charges against the two men.

The FBI, which led the investigation of the Toco Hill shooting, apprehended the two men this morning in Johns Creek, said Cpl. Jake Smith, a Gwinnett County police spokesman.

"We've been aware of their identity for awhile," he said.

The FBI, however, is not commenting on the investigation, said Stephen Emmett, a special agent with the bureau's Atlanta office.

A funeral service was held Monday morning in Canton for Castillo, who worked for Garda Cash Logistics. He was leaving the Kroger grocery store in the shopping center with a cash pick-up when he was shot by one of the robbers who fled in a getaway car with another man on March 15. He later died at Grady Hospital in Atlanta.

The FBI has been chasing the men responsible for the crimes since Sept. 14 when two men robbed a Garda armored courier while he was servicing an ATM at a Bank of America on Howell Mill Road. Two men struck again in Marietta Oct. 7 when they robbed a courier at gunpoint inside a Mex-America Latino store. 

Another robbery occurred in Buford on Nov. 11, Snellville on Nov. 29 and inside the Mall of Georgia in Gwinnett County on Dec. 7. A second courier was able to fire at one of the robbers who fled the mall through a side door, according to an FBI statement. The next robbery occurred at a Wells Fargo bank on Redan Road in Stone Mountain on Jan. 21. Two men fired on one of the guards who was taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. He required surgery but survived.