Sep 18, 2007 7:45 am US/Central
More Stolen From Armored Car Than First Thought
(CBS 11 News Exclusive)
An affidavit details federal charges against a Dallas man, who is one of three believed to have been involved in a armored car robbery two weeks ago.
According to the FBI affidavit, an informant tipped police to Freddy Lee Foots' alleged involvement because Foots asked the informant to steal a van with sliding doors.
That informant also named another man, Donald Ray Williams, for his alleged involvement in the Loomis armored car robbery from a Dallas Compass Bank location.
According to the armored car employees, two armed men wearing masks got out of a mini van and pointed the weapons at them while they were making a money drop at the branch on Sept. 5. After getting the money bags, the suspects abandoned the van at Lakewood Library.
Foots then apparently purchased a black four-door Mercedes. It was that car deputies spotted on Friday in Reeves County, west of Odessa. Deputies tried to stop the car and a black Cadillac that was following it for a traffic violation, but neither vehicle stopped and several agencies joined in the chase before the Mercedes was spotted at a motel in Van Horn.
According to the affidavit, a search of the Mercedes turned up $467,000 -- some still banded with labels that read Federal Reserve Bank and Compass Bank.
Police also found $145,000 in the trunk of the Cadillac. The driver was identified as a Pamela Jean Bull, who claimed to be Foots' girlfriend. She told police Foots had given her the money to the buy the Cadillac.
Bull added the group were headed to Las Vegas when they were stopped. Both Foots and Bull remain jailed in West Texas this morning.
Foots is expected to appear before a federal judge in El Paso sometime this week.
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