Raw Video: Local Cash Stores Robbed
WACO (January 18, 2011)—Sammie Jerome Antonio Jackson, 18, of Dallas, was arrested early Tuesday morning after a pair of robbers struck two Waco area Cash Stores Monday morning.
Jackson remained in the McLennan County Jail Tuesday, in lieu of $50,000 bond.
He’s charged with two counts of aggravated robbery, one of which stems from the holdup Monday at the Cash Store in Bellmead.
Police wouldn’t confirm Tuesday whether the second count was filed in connection with the robbery a short time later of a Cash Store on South Valley Mills Drive in Beverly Hills.
Police said Monday they thought the two robberies were related.
An arrest warrant was also issued early Tuesday for Vernon Ray Hart, 19, of Dallas.
He remained at large Tuesday.
Jackson was arrested at around 3:50 a.m. Tuesday in Waco, but police did not say where or indicate whether the arrest stemmed from a search earlier in the Baylor area after reports of a suspicious vehicle and two armed men on campus.
On Monday, two men first robbed a Cash Store in the 1500 block of North Interstate 35 in Bellmead and then about 15 minutes later, at around 10:35 a.m. Monday, armed robbers struck the Cash Store in the 1300 block of South Valley Mills Drive in Beverly Hills.
The descriptions of the men involved in the two robberies were similar and in both cases the robbers escaped in a late model gray or silver Ford Taurus with 18 to 20 inch rims.
A car matching that description was found overnight at an apartment complex near the Baylor campus, but it's not clear whether it's the same vehicle.
A security camera at a nearby Sonic restaurant recorded video of the robbers as they drove up and entered the Cash Store in Bellmead, police said.
Investigators were reviewing the video late Monday morning.
Bellmead Cash Store robbery witnesses said the two men who held up the business were both in their late teens or early 20s.
One was about 5-foot-6 and the other was about 6-feet tall.
Both had slim builds, police said.
The shorter robber displayed a chrome handgun after making small talk with the employees, police said, and demanded he wanted all of the money in the store including what was in the safe.
The two escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.
No one was injured in either robbery.
Waco police, meanwhile, kept an eye on a third Cash Store in case the robbers turned up there, police said.
Cash stores provide cash payday loans of as much as $2,000, according to the company’s website.
