DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 21-year-old man Wednesday who was wanted in connection with the armed robbery of a Georgia Tech student in his dormitory room earlier this year.
Terrance “Boo Boo” Watley was apprehended at 5 p.m. in front of the Crestview Apartments at 4946 Snapfinger Woods Drive, authorities said.
“Tech police solicited the assistance of the Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Squad after receiving information indicating that Watley was hiding out in DeKalb County,” said Sgt. Adrion Bell, spokesman for the DeKalb Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect was wanted on an arrest warrant charging him with armed robbery and burglary, Bell said. He was being transported to DeKalb County jail on Wednesday afternoon to await extradition to Fulton County.
Watley and his alleged accomplice, Steven Lorenzo “Turk” Terry, are believed to have followed students through open electronic gates into the North Avenue Apartments on Centennial Olympic Park Drive the early morning of July 1.
The men made it up to a male student’s room, pushed open an unlocked door and threatened to shoot the student if he resisted, according to police records. The intruders took the student’s laptop computer, cell phone, wallet and cash.
Terry was arrested July 4 in connection with another incident. While Terry was jailed on charges of battery, cruelty to children and fleeing and attempting to elude police, investigators said they tied him to the Tech robbery, and an arrest warrant was issued for him Aug. 17.
On Aug. 30, a Fulton County grand jury indicted Terry on charges of armed robbery, burglary and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He is being held without bond in Fulton County jail, the lockup’s records show.
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