Teens charged with robbing a Waffle House held up another a month earlier, SC cops say
Two Midlands teenagers who have been charged with robbing an area Waffle House were also arrested for previously holding up another of the chain restaurants, according to law enforcement officials.
Jye’kwuan Dae-Sean Brown, a 19-year-old Columbia resident, and Elgin resident Jalon Bradley, another 19-year-old, werepreviously charged for the March 7 armed robbery at the Waffle House on U.S. 601 in Lugoff, the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office said.
Now the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office said the duo has been charged for the Feb. 24 robbery of the Waffle House at the intersection of S.C. 34 and Interstate 77 in Ridgeway.
No injuries were reported in either robbery.
Information about how Brown and Bradley were connected to the robberies was not available.
Both teens were charged with armed robbery and possession of a weapon during a violent crime from the February robbery, according to the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office.
Jail records show Bradley was arrested on March 16 in the Lugoff robbery by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s fugitive apprehension team in Sumter County. He was charged with three counts of kidnapping, in addition to armed robbery with a deadly weapon, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, safe cracking and criminal conspiracy. This week, he was charged in the February robbery in Fairfield County.
He remains jailed at the Kershaw County Detention Center.
On March 24, Brown was arrested by SLED on the same charges in the March robbery, but is no longer listed on the Kershaw County jail’s inmate roster.
The Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office said the teens were not the only people involved in the armed robbery in March.
“We expect more charges and more arrests in our ongoing investigation,” Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan said.
There was no word about how many other people were involved, their identities, potential charges they could be facing, or if any were also involved in the February robbery at the Ridgeway Waffle House.
At the time of the armed robberies, Brown was out on bond from a July 2, 2022, arrest, Richland County court records show. Brown is facing pending drug possession and weapons charges in addition to one count of failure to stop for a blue light, according to Richland County court records.
The Richland County Sheriff’s Department, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office and Sumter Police Department have assisted in the investigations.
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This story was originally published April 4, 2023 at 1:23 PM.
