Varion Hicks and Vernon Hicks
The Dallas Police Department arrested three suspects in a spree of convenience-store robberies in Oak Cliff Sunday morning.
Four holdups were reported between 4:25 a.m. and 5:25 a.m. Sunday. The robbers threatened people with guns and demanded money at all four places. No injuries were reported.
In three of them, victims told police that the robbers got away in a beige sedan with a canvas top.
Police spotted a gold Mercury Grand Marquis with a canvas top, matching descriptions of the vehicle used in the crimes, at about 6 a.m. Sunday. They arrested Varion Hicks and Vernon Hicks, both 26, as well as Eriesse Whitehead, 27.
Varion Hicks and Vernon Hicks are charged with multiple counts of aggravated robbery and held in the Dallas County jail with no bail.
Whitehead is charged with aggravated robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm and has bonded out of jail already.
They are accused of robbing cashiers at a 7-Eleven store on South Beckley at Illinois, a QuikTrip near the Ann Arbor exit off Interstate 35 and a 7-Eleven on Ledbetter at Sunnyvale.
At a 7-Eleven on Zang at Illinois, they are accused of robbing two people at gunpoint outside the store.
The punishment for aggravated robbery in Texas is five-99 years or life in prison. Unlawful possession of a firearm is a class-A misdemeanor, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a fine of $4,000.
