Ex-Cons Charged In CUHold-Up

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. - (06/19/03) -- Local police took a10-and-a-half-hour drive to Indiana to track down four suspectseventually charged in last month's armed robbery at Telco CU innearby Tarboro. Three of the suspects have long arrestrecords and have served time in prison, including Cedric Speight,22, of Rocky Mount, a two-time convict who was part of a local gangthat went on a six-week robbery spree in 1999. Also charged in thecredit union heist was Nathan Petway, 25, of Rocky Mount, jailedfour times for weapons drug and robbery offenses; Scottie Whitaker,24, of Rocky Mount, imprisoned last year for drug offences; andLaKendick Fobbs, 27, of Rocky Mount. After the robber, the four,one of whom allegedly pistol-whipped a teller during the creditunion hold-up, fled to Indiana, where one suspect was arrested. Theother three were arrested in Rocky Mount.