NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
May 29, 2009
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
THREE ARRESTED IN DESTIN
ARMED ROBBERY
Those charged are:
19-year old Robert "Joey" Bailey and 24-year old Arsenio Perez Kelly, both of 45
6th Street, and 18-year old Davvin Mantrail Armstrong of 60 5th Street.
Investigators with the
Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office say Kelly had befriended the three Ukranians.
On May 20th, he picked them up from where they were staying at the Village Inn
in Destin. Bailey was a passenger in the car. Kelly was to take the Ukranians to
look at a possible summer rental house. He stopped for gas at the BP Station at
201 Harbor Boulevard and went inside. While there, another man got into the car
with a handgun and demanded wallets and purses. Victims Olga Popik, Kateryna
Bazhan, and Serghei Ochisan were robbed of $3000 in cash and other items.
During the
course of the investigation, Sheriff's deputies learned that the whole incident
had been pre-planned. Armstrong was the man who had executed the robbery,
with the knowledge and assistance of
Kelly and Bailey.
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