Clayton County police captured four people sought in connection with the robbery of a Fayetteville Walmart on Thursday after a getaway vehicle got stuck in traffic.
Fayette County authorities put out an alert about 11:30 a.m. of a heist at the Walmart, Clayton police said. Fayette said to be on the lookout for a Chevrolet truck occupied by two men and two women being tailed by a Fayetteville police detective in an unmarked car.
Clayton officers spotted the truck heading north on I-85 approaching Forest Parkway.
When the truck got tied up in heavy traffic on Forest, Clayton and Fayetteville police moved in, arrested four people and recovered "a large sum of cash and a bank deposit bag," Clayton police said in a news release.
Authorities identified the men as Darrell Caldwell, 51, and Howard Jessie Lowe, 45; and the women as Sarah Jell Douglas, 33, and Trakhanna Nakia Scott, 34. All four live in Decatur.
According to Capt. Steve Crawshaw, Fayetteville police spokesman, Caldwell and Lowe were charged with felony theft by taking, and Douglas and Scott were charged with being parties to the crime.
The two men had entered the Walmart and walked up to the customer service area, and as one man acted as a lookout, the other grabbed the bank bag, Crawshaw said.
A store manager saw what happened, followed the men out of the store, got a description of the truck and its tag number, and called police, Capshaw said. A Fayetteville detective who was in the area spotted the truck and began following it.
After taking the suspects into custody, Clayton handed them and the evidence over to Fayetteville police. The four were being held Thursday night in Fayette County Jail.
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