ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office arrested two individuals related to a string of convenience store robberies across three counties.
Del Veckeo Lamont Goins, 39, Snow Hill, and Deonta Maurice Dumas, 20, Hamlet, are both in custody.
Goins is charged with one felony count each of robbery with a dangerous weapon, discharging a firearm to cause fear and conspiracy to commit robbery. Dumas is charged with two felony counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon and one felony count each of second-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit robbery.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team served a search warrant at a residence on Blue Bird Ln. in Hamlet Friday morning where the duo was allegedly staying.
“These cases were solved by several agencies coming together as a team and tracking down every lead,” said Sheriff Mark Gulledge in a Facebook post. “This team work [definitely took] some dangerous people off of our streets. Thank you to my deputies and investigators, the investigators from the Rockingham Police Dept., the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office and the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office for working non-stop on these cases.”
Both suspects have been placed in the Richmond County Jail under a $500,000 bond. They’re both facing more charges from other agencies involved in the investigation.
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