Police in Athens have identified a felon with a history of snatching crimes as the suspect in two recent convenience store robberies.
The man who robbed the Golden Pantry on Atlanta Highway last Thursday allegedly snatched two customers' cellphones on his way out, the Athens Banner-Herald reported. On Monday, Athens-Clarke County police announced they had identified Moses Jerome Tidwell as a suspect in that crime as well as in another robbery of a Golden Pantry location on Milledge Avenue earlier this month.
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Tidwell, 55, is in custody in Monroe for an unrelated robbery in that city, according to police.
He was arrested Friday at a home off Green Street after robbing a Dollar General store in Monroe and being tied to the other robberies in other jurisdictions, police said in a news release. The Walton County Sheriff’s Office assisted with the arrest.
No other information on the Dollar General robbery was released.
Tidwell has been in and out of prison for much of the past three decades for various crimes ranging from robbery by snatch to aggravated assault, state prison records show. He most recently spent six years behind bars on a robbery by snatch conviction out of Spalding County and was released on parole in May 2018. He was convicted of the same crime in Columbia County in 2005.
Other prior convictions include crimes in Fulton and Cobb counties, records show.
Authorities have obtained arrest warrants for Tidwell in connection with the two recent robberies in Athens. It is not known if he will have to face his charges in Walton County before he is moved to Clarke County to face charges there.
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