A couple from Savannah was captured by U.S. Marshals in Virginia on warrants stemming from two robberies in Chatham County.
Savannah-Chatham police had issued warrants for Joseph Catjio Carter, 26, and Amelia Caresse Brierton, 27, for robbing and beating a man at a southside Savannah motel on Sept. 15, said Julian Miller, police spokesman. A third suspect in that incident, 22-year-old Eric James Burton, had already been arrested and charged with armed robbery.
Carter and Brierton, who were both released from prison earlier this year, were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Charlottesville, Va., and will soon be extradited to Chatham County, Miller said.
Carter faces charges of robbery by force, battery, aggravated battery and armed robbery for the Sept. 15 incident. He’s also been charged with an Oct. 1 incident on Ferguson Avenue at Shipyard Road in which a 20-year-old man said he was forced into a car by a gunman who beat him and robbed him of $100, Miller said.
Brierton was charged with being a party to the crime of robbery by force in the Sept. 15 robbery.
Miller said Carter was released from Valdosta State Prison in June after serving most of a two-year sentence on charges of terroristic threats and acts and simple battery. Brierton was released from Arrendale State Prison in July after serving 17 months for shoplifting, interference with government property, conspiracy and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.