WARNER ROBINS, Ga.—A man charged in an armed robbery of a branch of Warner Robins Credit Union here was caught in Brownsville, Texas, along with an accomplice.
Both men reportedly already had crossed into Mexico. Police said Anthony Scott Chairmont, 27, and John Welborn Smith, 56, both of Warner Robins, earlier had been tracked to Matamoros, Mexico, by U.S. marshals. The men also are suspects in the robbery of two banks in Louisiana.
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