Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004 |
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Furniture purchase leads to arrest of home invasion suspect By JOHN MUNFORD The third suspect in a January home invasion in north Fayette County was arrested last week by the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force. George Roberts Jr., 30, of Decatur, was arrested Feb. 23 after task force agents got his current address from a store where he had bought furniture, said Lt. Col. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. He is charged with felony counts of armed robbery, kidnapping and aggravated assault. Fayette County sheriff’s detectives say Roberts was part of an armed trio who broke into a home in the Kenwood Road area Jan. 26, accosting the couple in their bedroom. Roberts had abandoned his previous residence in DeKalb where detectives found the .44 Magnum gun that was taken during the home invasion, Jordan said. The gun also had Roberts’ prints on it, Jordan added. Detectives previously arrested two other suspects in the case including Resaul Malik Rayshad, who had previously met the couple and was the only one of the three attackers to wear a mask. The attackers pointed their guns at the victims, who were also roughed up, deputies said. The woman was pulled around the house by her hair and forced to shut off the home’s burglar alarm, according to arrest warrants filed in the case. The couple was tied up before the attackers got away, but the husband worked himself loose so he could call 911, Jordan said. The attackers got away with cash and other items belonging to the victims in addition to the gun, police said. The fugitive squad was also involved in the arrest of Rayshad, who was found in a barbershop two blocks from the squad’s offices in DeKalb County, Jordan said. The sheriff’s department participates on the fugitive task force, which specializes in serving high-risk arrest warrants. One deputy serves on the task force and in exchange the sheriff’s office benefits from having that specialized service available, Jordan said. “They serve warrants on the baddest of the bad and they do it very well,” Jordan said.
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