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Three Charged With Gunpoint Robbery In Home Depot Parking Lot
May 24, 2011
Three men are under arrest after they robbed a local juvenile at gunpoint Sunday afternoon.
Andre Lanier Cook, 24, Otis Charles Foster Jr., 20 and Tevin Akeem Nettles, 18 were arrested and charged with robbery of an individual with a firearm, robbery carjacking with a firearm, kidnapping, grand theft, possession of marijuana and possession of cocaine.
On Sunday afternoon, around 3:23 p.m., deputies responded to the area of Highway 29 and West Nine Mile Road for the reported robbery. Deputies were told by the juvenile victim that he was waiting for a friend in the parking lot of the Home Depot, located at 541 West Nine Mile Rd., when the robbery occurred.
According to the victim a silver Mitsubishi Mirage, occupied by 3 males, was driven up next to his Chevrolet Silverado truck. Two of the males jumped out of the Mirage and into the victim’s vehicle. One of the males forced the victim out of the driver’s seat and into the middle seat. The other male was armed with a handgun and warned the victim to cooperate or risk getting shot.
The victim was driven to Untreiner Avenue where the suspects took the victims stereo equipment, cell phone, iPod, cash and clothing items. The suspects then fled the scene in the Mirage, leaving the victim unharmed.
“Shortly after deputies spoke to the victim in this case they broadcast a description of the suspects and their vehicle to other units,” said Deputy Chris Welborn. “Deputies later located the suspects, arrested them and seized their vehicle and the firearm used in this crime.”
Deputies also located marijuana and cocaine in the suspect’s vehicle as well as all the property they took from the victim.
The three were booked into the Escambia County Jail and held on a $311,000 bond.
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19 Responses to “Three Charged With Gunpoint Robbery In Home Depot Parking Lot”
Bad area. Even worse crime area. Home Depot got the property cheap due to the low property value.
@ PensacolaEd; Whomever was holding the gun will get 10 years. About a year ago, I served as a juror. A young man robbed a local restaurant with a gun and he was sentenced to 10 years.
12ga with 00 buckshot and slugs, and what ever I’m carrying that day 9mm or 45. Come try my truck!
those smug …….. looks like they are trying out their “tough guy” faces in the mug shots. makes you want to just smack some sense into them.
senseless, just plain senseless…..
Slap on the hand they ‘ll be back!
If these goons would have spent some time out in the world looking for a J-O-B, they wouldn’t have resorted to this. sad, but one day they will do this again because we know they will be let out, and an innocent person is going to end up dead or seriously hurt, THEN THEY WILL PAY!
3 pm on a Sunday? Seriously? Did anyone else see this?
We almost stopped in Home Depot that afternoon and I wouldn’t think that this was a risky area. Wow, glad it wasn’t my son sitting in that car!
Glad that the youth was OK and sounds like they got his stuff back. So sorry that he had to go through that.
You don’t need a permit to carry in your car, a juvenile can’t but sometimes it’s better gettin caught havin one and not needing it than needing one and not havin it..
If you want to jump in my truck, I will welcome you with my .380, and I don’t think you will be robbing anyone else. This is just the reason I have purchased a weapon for self protection. Just the other night I met my wife at the Home Depot, so she could leave car and we could go out for dinner. Not only do I shop Home Depot, but thought it safe enough to have as meeting place for family. This saves gas and time driving all the way home, and then making the 20 mile return trip to go out for dinner. Why can’t people do such crazy things???
Shame that was a kid instead of an older person with a concealed weapons permit.
Bless that kids heart. You know he was scared to death. It is scary to think that anyone would be so cruel to put a person through something like that. People can be so evil!
RE: Dismayed,
RIGHT ON BROTHER !!!!!
it just occured to me that all of the recent stories of crime in the area i have read involve young black males. is there a trend in the region of rising crime rates by this demographic? to hear about mobile it sounds like a battle zone the crime is so bad. they have curfues now. we need to look at this and figure out why the sudden jump in crime from one demographic group.
lock up these 3 losers! this is the kind of trash we do not need on the street.
bold criminals like this who rob in broad day quickly move on to more serious crimes. these 3 will graduate to serious violent crime in no time. get them off the street so that does not happen.
I HOPE that the judge ends their careers NOW, next time they may not leave any witnesses!
All I can say is 2nd ammendment people. Let these punks try that with me and they’ll need body bags for ‘em.
What ever happened to Florida’s 10-20-LIFE Law? Commiting a crime with a gun gets you 10 years automatically, pulling the gun gets you 20 years, and firing it gets you LIFE. These punks need to spend some serious time behind bars.
They’ll be on the street again soon. At least the juvenile wasn’t beaten like the kid a few days ago. He spent hours in surgery having his jaw rebuilt!
They’ll be on the streets again soon. At least the juvinile wasn’t beaten like the kid was a few days ago. He had to have his jaw rebuilt!