Houston Meat Market Marauders Face Federal Felonies

Houston, TX -- Members of a four-man stick-up crew are facing up to 20 years in club fed for allegedly knocking over a string of meat markets last December.

The crew -- Billie Hawkins, 20, Laroderick Martin, 19, Jirron Curtis, 21, and Marcus Malbro, 18, all from Houston -- are accused of hitting multiple locations of La Michoacana Meat Market.

Before hitting the store a crew member would case it out to make sure there were no cops or security guards, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.

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In each of the take-over style robberies the crew was masked and armed, they often shot up the ceiling and occasionally knocked the store employees around.

The 13 count indictments handed down by a federal grand jury allege that the crew members would drive a stolen vehicle to hit the stores and then meet up with another person to switch cars.