Officers from the Lebanon Police Department and Boone Sheriff’s Office apprehended two males shortly after they committed an Armed Robbery in Lebanon.At approximately 11:59 a.m. on Thursday, Lebanon Units were dispatched to the Verizon Wireless Store, located at 2415 North Lebanon Street, for an Armed Robbery that had just occurred. While responding, Lebanon Units were informed of a possible vehicle description and suspect descriptions.
With the help of a GPS device that was put in with the stolen property, Responding Officers were able to locate the suspects and vehicle in the area of Lebanon Street and Northfield Street. After seeing the responding officers, the vehicle began traveling south on Lebanon Street at a high rate of speed, then turned westbound on Camp Street. Boone County Sheriff’s Detective Captain Mike Beard was pursuing the suspect vehicle with his emergency lights activated as they traveled westbound on Camp Street. Lebanon Officers also joined the pursuit as it approached Camp Street and Lafayette Avenue. The suspect vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed and disregarded stop signs along Camp Street.
At the intersection of Camp Street and Lafayette Avenue, the suspect vehicle attempted to make a right turn to travel northbound; however, they were unable to
negotiate the turn and struck a vehicle traveling southbound on Lafayette Avenue. With the suspect vehicle now disabled, both occupants exited the vehicle and fled on foot west into the Hoosier Estates Mobile Home Community. After a short foot pursuit, both suspects were taken into custody.
The occupants of the vehicle struck by the suspect vehicle during the pursuit suffered minor injuries. Both suspects also suffered minor injuries during the
collision and apprehension. No officers were injured during this incident.
Kaeron Ray, 22 from Indianapolis, was booked into the Boone County Jail on preliminary charges of Armed Robbery, Intimidation, Criminal Confinement, Theft,
Resisting Law Enforcement, Possession of Stolen Property, and Pointing a Firearm. Ray was also found to have active warrants out of Marion County for
Burglary and Hendricks County for Armed Robbery.
Timothy Cottrell, Jr., 25 from Indianapolis, was also booked into the Boone County Jail on preliminary charges of Armed Robbery, Intimidation, Criminal Confinement, Theft, Resisting Law Enforcement, Possession of Stolen Property, and Pointing a Firearm.
Detectives are continuing their investigation into this incident.