A 47-year-old man, suspected in a number of pawn shop robberies in several counties, was arrested in Conyers after a license plate reader on a Conyers patrol car helped law enforcement come up with a name.
Kim Lucas, spokeswoman for the Conyers Police Department said Friday Avery Frazier of Douglasville was being held without bond in the Rockdale County Jail on armed robbery, kidnapping and aggravated assault charges for an Oct. 30 holdup at Title Bucks. Police agencies in several counties are looking at him for robberies in their jurisdictions.
He was arrested on Wednesday, Lucas said.
“There are several other agencies that are investigating their own robberies that have occurred in weeks and months past,” she said.
In the Conyers pawn shop robbery, a masked man ordered two employees and a customer to stay in a back room for 10 minutes and then he escaped with cash, Lucas said.
Frazier also is a suspect in a Conyers pawn shop robbery in February but he has not been charged in that one.
Police came up with Frazier’s name when an officer followed up on data collected from a scanner posted on his patrol car that randomly captured license plate numbers of passing cars, one of which was an SUV Frazier was driving.
Officer Spencer Holland had noticed a two-toned black and tan Ford Expedition as he was responding to the call to investigate a robbery at Title Bucks. Later, driving a partrol car outfitted with a license plate scanner, Holland saw the Expedition again, remembered it matched the description of the getaway car in a Gwinnett County pawn shop robbery and also recalled that he had also passed it previously on his way to the Conyers robbery.
The plate number recorded the second time Holland saw the SUV led them to Frazier.
Douglasville police made the arrest for the Conyers PD.
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