Three charged with armed robbery

By Brennan Leathers (Contact) | Post-Searchlight

Published Friday, January 15, 2010

Bainbridge police have charged three youth in connection with the robbery of the Kangaroo convenience store on U.S. 84 East on Jan. 12.

Those charged with armed robbery in connection with the case are Marty Barber, 20, of Thomasville, Joshua Carl Rogers, 20, of Meigs, Ga., and a 16-year-old from Thomasville, according to Bainbridge Public Safety.

Police investigating the robbery, which happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday, tracked the ownership of a wrecked truck believed to have been the robbery suspects’ getaway vehicle. The truck was found overturned near the intersection of Old Whigham Dairy and Blackjack roads, where the driver apparently tried to turn at a high rate of speed and wrecked.

Investigators believe the teens, one of whom had significant but non-life-threatening head injuries, were then picked up by a friend who took them back to Thomasville.

The teens were arrested later that day and questioned at Bainbridge Public Safety by Investigator Anthony Stubbs and Georgia Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Mike Walsingham.

Elderly man attacked

An 85-year-old man was the victim of an aggravated assault that occurred on Tuesday night, according to a BPS incident report.

A resident of the 1400 block of South West Street reported her husband was walking around their house shortly after 8 p.m.

After replacing a light bulb, the man went to go back inside but was struck from behind with a large limb. Hearing the noise, the man’s wife went outside and found her husband lying on the ground, with a young black male standing over him with the limb in his hand. The suspect was described as wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a camouflage jacket.

Anyone with more information about the assailant can contact BPS investigators by calling 248-2038.