4 arrested immediately after zip-tying, robbing individuals within Glendale jewelry store

GLENDALE, AZ (3Tv/CBS 5) — Police say 4 men have been arrested immediately after they held 9 staff members and clients at gunpoint at a Glendale jewelry shop on Wednesday, thieving about $1.5 million worthy of of jewellery and dollars. According to court files, the robbery occurred at a Jared jewelry shop near 75th Avenue and Bell Highway just ahead of 7 p.m. Glendale police gained a contact from an personnel stating a man was within the store holding them at gunpoint.

According to court docket paperwork, when police arrived at the retail store, 4 men ran out of the organization carrying pillowcases entire of stolen jewellery, money, and goods stolen from workforce. However, the gentlemen dropped the pillowcases and tried using working away just before the police caught them. Police later identified the adult males as Deandre Donte Haven, Garry Wayne Freeny, Kenneth Ray Walton Jr., and Monta Lamont Harris.

According to witnesses, four males in ski masks walked into the store and began yelling at everybody to get on the ground. Walton had a taser, and Harris had a gun, pointing it at quite a few personnel. According to court paperwork, the adult males then zip-tied the workers whilst lying on the ground. Harris then pointed a gun at the employee’s head although the a few other males started thieving telephones, car or truck keys, and wallets. Haven then commenced smashing the exhibit circumstances with a hammer, and the 4 guys started shoving the jewellery into pillowcases.

Courtroom paperwork state that Harris then held a gun to a person of the employee’s heads and forced her to walk to a vault, in which he then stole many hundred dollars in hard cash. As the robbery took area, a person of the gentlemen shouted that police were being there, and the adult males tried to operate absent just before they had been finally caught.

In accordance to court docket paperwork, Haven denied remaining concerned in the crime and stated he was at a nearby restaurant with his brother when police stopped him. Nonetheless, law enforcement had been ready to determine Haven from a nearby surveillance video clip, in which he was seen working away from the jewellery shop and changing his apparel. According to court docket paperwork, Freeny told officers someone experienced “threatened his family members, and that was why he participated in the armed robbery.”

Through an job interview with investigators, Harris stated he experienced traveled from California to Arizona and had just fulfilled the a few other guys the evening of the criminal offense. According to courtroom paperwork, Harris told police “he necessary income and built a bad conclusion.” Walton Jr. explained to law enforcement the robbery experienced been planned the day prior and admitted to tying up folks inside the retail outlet and thieving the products.

All 4 gentlemen had been booked on nine counts of armed robbery with a fatal weapon, 9 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and 9 counts of aggravated theft. Freeny and Harris were on top of that charged with 9 counts of kidnapping. Harris was also booked on a single depend of possession of a weapon by a prohibited particular person.

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