NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
March 30, 2009
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
WEAPONS ROBBERY LEADS TO ARRESTS
Two Crestview
residents are currently in the Okaloosa County Department of Corrections,
charged with armed burglary after stealing cash and weapons from a home in the
Fort Walton Beach area Sunday afternoon.
Deputies from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office were called to 449
Waterway Lane around 2:30 p.m. Sunday. A resident there says five people he'd
invited into the house later forced him into his father's bedroom and stole
cash, two semi-automatic rifles, a 12 gauge shotgun, and a .22 caliber
rifle before fleeing the home.
Troopers with the
Florida Highway Patrol spotted the suspects' getaway car on P-J Adams Road near
Crestview and made a traffic stop on Villacrest Drive, assisted by officers from
the Crestview Police Department.
Inside the vehicle's trunk, they found the stolen weapons wrapped in a blanket.
The Sheriff's Office
has charged 20-year old Stephon Letray Thrash of 163 Conquest Avenue and 21-year
old Amos Clifton Clayborne of 454
Jillian Drive with armed burglary, grand theft firearm, and grand theft.
Similar charges
are also pending against three co-defendants.
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