Two of the three men accused of robbing a Cobb County Burger King earlier this month are also being investigated for allegedly throwing a bicycle and other objects onto vehicles from a Bartow County interstate bridge.
Three men entered the Cobb Parkway burger restaurant on Jan. 4 around 9:15 p.m. wearing masks and armed with a gun and other weapons, Major Wayne Dennard with Acworth police said. The men got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Video footage from the restaurant showed a Pontiac Grand Am circling in the parking lot prior to the robbery, Dennard said. Another Acworth officer recognized the car from a previous traffic stop.
The following day, officers stopped the same Grand Am and arrested 19-year-old Gerry Douglas of Kennesaw. A short time later, police took 17-year-old Dylan Scrutchins into custody.
The third person of interest, 18-year-old Dustin Johnson, eluded police until Tuesday, Dennard said. Johnson was arrested in Bartow County on unrelated charges, Dennard said. He was later charged as the third suspect in the Burger King robbery.
Douglas and Scrutchins are being held in the Cobb County jail and Johnson is in the Bartow jail, police said.
Johnson and Scrutchins are also being looked at by Bartow sheriff's investigators as persons of interest in a recent string of incidents in which a bicycle and other objects were thrown onto vehicles from an I-75 overpass, Bartow sheriff's Sgt. Jonathan Rogers told the AJC.
On three occasions since late December, vehicles traveling northbound on I-75 have had windshields shattered by objects tossed from the Groovers Landing Road bridge near Mile Marker 280 in Bartow County.
"We do believe that Scrutchins, Johnson and a third person named Derek Southern Jr. are going to be responsible for the bridge incidents," Rogers said Thursday morning, adding that investigators had not yet filed charges in those cases.
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