A second suspect in an Aug 3. home invasion in north Fayette County has been arrested by Fayette County Sheriff’s investigators on multiple charges that included kidnapping, armed robbery and cruelty to children.
Sheriff’s spokesman Brent Rowan said Thursday that 20 year-old Thaddeus Deonte Fowler, of Clarkston, was arrested on Aug. 24 and charged with two counts of armed robbery, burglary, two counts of first degree cruelty to children, two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of kidnapping.
Rowan said the Aug. 3 case involved Fowler and a second suspect, 20 year-old Arnold Floyd Jr., of Union City, entering into a residence on Revina Trail in north Fayette County where they held two juveniles, ages 12 and 16, at gun point and proceeded to steal approximately $4,000 worth of items from inside the home. The two victims were not injured during the assault, Rowan said.
Rowan said the victims in this case helped Fayette investigators positively identify the two suspects which led to the arrest of Floyd at his Union City home on Aug. 3. Fowler turned himself in at the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 24, Rowan said.
And in a second report, Rowan said sheriff’s investigators took additional criminal arrest warrants on a suspect arrested on Aug. 12 in connection with an attempted theft in Fayetteville that occurred on North 85 Parkway earlier that day.
Investigators subsequently charged Jaritt Ramon Ortiz, 22, of Griffin, with possession of tools for the commission of a crime, five counts of second degree criminal damage and five counts of criminal attempt to commit theft. Ortiz is currently in the Fayette County Jail.
The case involved Ortiz entering the premises of a business located on North 85 Parkway on Aug. 12 and attempting to steal recyclable metal from five air conditioning units at that location, said Rowan.
Fayette County deputies with the assistance of the Fayetteville Police Department responded to the North 85 Parkway business when an alarm was activated because of the attempted theft, Rowan said.
Rowan said Ortiz was located by responding deputies near the premises of the North 85 Parkway business and was arrested for loitering and prowling at the time of the incident.
