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robbery suspects arrested
By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer
Four suspects have been arrested
and charged in bank robberies in Marshall County last spring and summer
and a fifth suspect is still at large, according to sheriff Kenny Dickerson.
The suspects were rounded up in Memphis
and will be extradited back to the county, he said.
Five suspects, four of whom have been
named, are charged with the armed robbery of the Bank of Holly Springs
Slayden Branch May 19. Three of the suspects are charged with the armed
robbery of the Citizens Bank at Barton June 10.
Dickerson said the four suspects in the
Slayden bank robbery and the addresses they gave to authorities upon
arrest are Marcus Westbrook, 23, of 5965 East Point Cove, Apartment
2, Memphis, Tenn.; Starlet Kizer, 22, of 7764 Birdwood Drive, Memphis;
Angela Bryson Miller, 44, of 7764 Birdwood Drive, Memphis; and William
Albright, 20, of 5965 East Point Cove, Apartment 2, Memphis. The fifth
suspect is at large and being sought by the Gulf Coast Regional Task
Force, U.S. Marshals office, he said.
Kizer and Bryson, both females, are also
charged in the armed robbery of the Barton Branch of the Citizens Bank
along with the suspect at large, Dickerson said.
Two guns and two automobiles were recovered
from a Shelby County residence when arrest warrants were served. The
guns are being held as evidence in the armed robbery of the banks and
the vehicles are undergoing a thorough forensics check for evidence
in Marshall County. Search of the residence also produced evidence of
check forgery against the Marshall County chancery clerk’s office,
some of those fraudulent checks having also been produced with the chancery
clerk’s name on them, Dickerson said.
A search of the Shelby County residence
also produced computer equipment and paper trails pertinent to the investigations,
he said.
The suspects were expected to be indicted
by a Federal Court grand jury in Oxford on the bank robbery charges
Tuesday, he said.
Sheriff Dickerson expressed appreciation
for the many hours of dedicated service involved in the identification
and apprehension of the suspects in the two bank robberies. Those included
his investigative team at the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department,
led by Maj. Kelly McMillen, and officers with the Shelby County Swat
Team, the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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