Three alleged bandits on Wednesday were indicted on armed robbery charges in the Jan. 20 holdup of a local Burger King restaurant.
Sequoia T. Carter, 20, of Riverdale; Stephanie G. Strait, 36, of a Price Street address, and Roy Lewis Larkin Jr., 20, of Laurel Green Court, used the “handle portion of a handgun” to rob an individual at tghe 4268 Ogeechee Road restaurant of property of Burger King, the Chatham County grand jury found.
Three bandits robbed the restaurant before patrol officers were alerted to the robbery and arrived in the front and rear of the restaurant as the three suspects were driving away in a red Saturn, Savannah-Chatham police reported. Passersby pointed out the car and its location. Police followed the car until it stopped behind a nearby business and took the suspects into custody.
An undisclosed sum and a weapon were recovered, police said.
Larkin was identified as the gunman who walked in the business and robbed it, police said. Carter was an employee of the restaurant and Strait drove the getaway vehicle, police said.
In addition to the armed robbery charge against all three, the two-count indictment obtained by Assistant District Attorney David Rhoden included a count against Larkin alone for possession of a firearm – a “handgun, a black semi-automatic replica type pistol” - during the commission of a felony.