The keen eyes of Metro police helicopter pilot Jake Patterson led to Thursday night’s arrest of two robbery suspects just a few minutes after they held up a woman on Daniel Ray Drive in the Whites Creek area.
The 21-year-old victim had just arrived home and was getting out of her car when she saw a young man walking up the street putting on a red ski mask. The suspect approached the victim at gunpoint and demanded her belongings. He fled the driveway on foot. She believed the gunman likely got into a newer model white four-door car that she had seen in the neighborhood as she drove home.
That car description was relayed over the police radio. Officer Patterson, who was flying over the area when the car description went out, spotted the vehicle and began following it. The two suspects apparently saw the helicopter and began throwing things out of the car. Ground units stopped the 2005 Dodge Charger at the intersection of Wilmoth Road and Moorewood Drive. The victim came to the scene and positively identified Devan Lee Madison, 18, of Berrywood Way, as the gunman who was putting on the ski mask. Madison’s passenger, Eugene Lamont Jones, 18, of Yowell Avenue, was found to be carrying the victim’s cell phone. The red ski mask was among the recovered items that had been thrown from the car.
“The victim’s quick telephone call to police and her description of the strange looking car in her neighborhood were instrumental in the apprehension of these two suspects,” Chief Ronal Serpas said. “Officer Patterson also did a tremendous job spotting the car and directing ground units to it.”
Madison and Jones are both charged with aggravated robbery and are being held in lieu of $75,000 each. North Precinct detectives are investigating their potential involvement in other robbery cases. Their photos are not being released at present so as not to jeopardize future lineups.
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