Two Stone Mountain teenagers allegedly thought robbing a bank would be easy – until a dye pack exploded in a bag of cash they tried to steal, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Now, the teens are being held in the Gwinnett County Detention Center, charged with the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank on Killian Hill Road.
Tevin Contrell Jones, 18, and Kentay Okera Fields, 17, allegedly entered and left the bank three times on one day last September. On the third trip, they walked up to a teller and presented a note demanding money, police said.
The two were inexperienced; they wore “no gloves, no mask, nothing other than baseball hats,” Gwinnett County police Detective Ben Finney told Channel 2.
The teller overheard one suspect say to the other, “I told you this was easy,” Finney said.
The pair didn’t notice the teller slipping a dye pack into a money bag.
As the suspects left the bank, “the dye pack explodes, [and] they drop the bag and then flee,” Finney said. "They were seen running into a silver, white four-door car and that's about all we had.”
Channel 2 aired a segment on the unsolved case, and a tipster called police. Investigators matched palm and fingerprints left at the bank to the two suspects, Finney said.
After so many months, Finney said, the teens probably were “believing that they had gotten away with it. And all of a sudden, Gwinnett County shows up at their front door."
Jones was booked into Gwinnett County Detention Center on April 16, and Fields, last Friday, according to jail records. Each has been charged with felony robbery.
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