Crime & Safety
Update: Gwinnett Police Arrest Two Suspects in String of Armored Car Robberies
Police believe the two are also responsible for the March 15 robbery in Toco Hill Shopping Center that left an armored car guard dead.
Gwinnett County police have charged two men in connection with a string of violent armored car robberies across the metro Atlanta area, 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 for robberies 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 guard Gary Castillo dead. DeKalb County police will investigate that incident. Gwinnett County police also expect additional charges against the two men.
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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.
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The FBI is not commenting on the investigation, said Stephen Emmett, a special agent with the FBI'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.
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