By Jason Schwartz
All four suspects accused of using handcuffs and pepper spray during an armed robbery at a TMobile store in December have been arrested almost six months later. Travas Byrd, Allen Eugene, Clinton Johnson and Georges Richardson are all in custody after a lengthy investigation, police said. Investigators released information and photographs of the robbery at 2301 West Glades Road and suspects to the media. They then received information that Byrd was one of the suspects. Through tips from Crime Stoppers and help from detectives with BSO’s Robbery Unit, detectives identified the other three suspects as well as the look-out person. In December, two men entered the store and acted like customers before pulling out guns and forcing two employees and a customer into a storage area in the back of the store, police said. Two more men entered the store and helped handcuff and pepper spray the victims. The gunmen got away with cash, phones and the victims’ personal belongings. One of the victims was able to use a cellphone to call 911, but the gunmen got away before police arrived.
The victims were taken to Boca Raton Regional Hospital for treatment. Later that month, Byrd was arrested in Broward County on an unrelated warrant. Detectives said Byrd, who had a cellphone that had been stolen during the T-Mobile robbery, confessed and implicated Eugene as the mastermind behind the crime. In January, authorities in Broward County arrested Eugene on an unrelated robbery warrant. Eugene then admitted to his participation in the robbery and claimed to have pepper sprayed the victims, but he refused to name his cohorts, detectives said. Johnson was arrested in Broward County on a probation violation charge earlier this month. Detectives said Johnson’s sister and probation officer identified him from the surveillance photograph of the robbery. He also implicated himself during several telephone calls he made from jail, they said.