4 charged with robbery outside Publix
Four men have been arrested and charged with threatening a Publix store manager and two employees with a bottle to rob them in the parking lot of a north Fulton County shopping center, Channel 2 Action News reported.
The incident happened shortly after midnight Monday outside the Publix store on Rucker Road in Roswell, police said. The three men had just finished their shifts and were leaving the store when a group of men drove up in a red Chevrolet Blazer.
"The passenger jumped out of the truck, ran up to them with a beer bottle and said he was going to kill them," Roswell police Officer Lisa Holland told Channel 2.
The man "took their wallets, cell phones everything they have," Holland said.
After the men fled in the truck, the victims drove to a Taco Mac on Crossville Road and called police. An officer on patrol spotted the suspects' truck and pulled it over.
"Apparently they were coming back, had gotten turned around, maybe lost, and that's how he was able to get them," Holland said.
The stolen goods were recovered, she said. No one was injured in the incident.
Alexis Martinez, Luis Alberto Laredo, Charlie Tavera and Richard Tavera were booked into Fulton County Jail on multiple counts of armed robbery and aggravated assault, jail records showed.
Martinez also was charged with driving under the influence, giving and false name/date of birth and obstruction, while the Taveras were charged with drug possession, records show. It was not immediately know if they were related.
