Police have arrested three men in connection with the armed robbery of a group of New Haven residents outside their apartment early Tuesday morning.
Karis Westley, 22, Rajoun Julious, 23, and Robert Fairweather, 23, are facing charges. Westley and Julious are both convicted felons, according to police.
Police said one of the men confronted three victims who had stopped near their apartment on Elm Street to look at a bureau left curbside. The robber held them at gunpoint and demanded their valuables, cellphones and cellphone passwords.
He left with two other men in a Toyota Corolla, which was last seen heading northbound on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.
Police were able to track one of the victim’s cellphones about an hour later, which led them to the area of Morse Street in the Newhallville neighborhood.
Officers arrived to find the three suspects and spotted two guns in the car: one stashed beneath the driver’s seat and another in the seat-back pocket on the driver’s side, according to police.
All three men were handcuffed and arrested.
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Westley was charged with first-degree armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle, second-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, carrying a pistol without a permit, criminal possession of a firearm.
Julious was charged with commit first-degree armed robbery, carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle, second-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, carrying a pistol without a permit, criminal possession of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to sell.
Fairweather was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree armed robbery, carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle, second-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, carrying a pistol without a permit.
It’s not clear if any of the suspects has an attorney.
