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Police Arrest Local Man For August Armed Robbery

WACO (September 11, 2012)—Waco police Street Crimes officers and U.S. Marshals arrested a Waco man Monday evening who was wanted in connection with an August armed robbery.

Clyde Vonzell Forcey, 17, was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bond, charged with aggravated robbery.

Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Forcey was arrested on a warrant that was issued after police investigated an aggravated robbery on August 26 during which a group of several assailants robbed two men and a woman outside a Waco apartment complex.

Officers werew sent at about 6 p.m. on that date to the Car-Mel Apartments, in the 3600 block of West Waco Drive, where they found two men and a woman wo reported they had been robbed.

The victims told officers they had gone to the complex to visit friends and as they parked, a group of about six men approached, some with guns drawn, and demanded money and other valuables.

The robbers took cash, shoes, clothing, jewelry and cellular telephones, then forced the three back into their van and made them drive away.

No one was injured.

One of the victims recognized one of the robbers and picked him out of a photo line up.

Forcey was arrested without incident, Swanton said.


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