Two men with guns tied up employees of a T-Mobile store on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington and forced them to open a safe at gunpoint in November 2016, according to police, and they have arrested one of the suspects.
Demetrius Wilkes, 26, was arrested Tuesday and charged in connection with an armed robbery on Nov. 3, 2016.
Police said the two robbers approached staff at the T- Mobile at 3111 Berlin Turnpike just after 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, as they were locking up the store, forced them back into the building and committed the robbery.
The robbers stole cash and store merchandise, police said.
Wilkes has been charged with:
- Two counts of first-degree robbery
- Two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery in the first degree
- Three counts of kidnapping in the first degree with a firearm
- Three counts of conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the first degree with a firearm
- Three counts of unlawful restraint in the first degree
- Three counts of conspiracy to commit unlawful restraint in the first degree
- Three counts of reckless endangerment in the first degree
- Three counts of conspiracy to commit reckless endangerment in the first degree
- Three counts of threatening in the first degree
- Three counts of conspiracy to commit threatening in the first degree
- Larceny in the third degree
- Conspiracy to commit larceny in the third degree
- Larceny in the sixth degree
- Conspiracy to commit larceny in the sixth degree.
Wilkes was held on a $750,000 court-set bond and he will appear in New Britain Superior Court today.
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