Quentin Booker, who participated as a lookout in five robberies of armored car couriers in the metro Atlanta, pleaded guilty Friday to charges involving five armed robberies of armored car couriers.
While screenwriters and novelists often romanticize such bandits, north Georgia’s top prosecutor and top cop said Brooks and his eight robbery crew members were a menace to society
“These violent robberies terrorized the community,” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. “This is not the Wild West where robbers ride off into glory after a heist. This is reality. Violent criminals like these will be caught, and prosecuted, even the lookouts.”
Ricky Maxwell, Acting Special Agent in Charge, FBI Atlanta Field Office, pledged to work to rid streets “of such callous criminals.”
Booker and his crew hit metro Atlanta for a four-month crime spree that ended by March 30,2011. Gunmen would relieve couriers of cash — totalling more than $470,000— when they were restocking automatic-teller machines in Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb counties while others served as lookouts and getaway drivers, Yates said.
Booker, 36 of Douglasville , served as a lookout.
Eight others have previously entered guilty pleas. Besides the five robberies Booker participated in, other crew members — Stacey Dooley, Ashley Henderson and Ronnie Little — killed courier Gary Castillo when he was making an $11,000 pick-up on March 15, 2011, outside the Kroger’s Grocery Store on LaVista Road in DeKalb County.
Booker pleaded guilty to five counts of Hobbs Act robbery (armed robbery of the couriers), and two counts of carrying and using a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.
Yates did not specify a sentencing date in the press release.
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