The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested Samuel Baxter in connection with armed robberies carried out by suspects posing as sheriff’s deputies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s happening:<\/strong> On Jan. 9, the Gwinnett County Police Department told the Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit that a group of suspects had been impersonating deputies to commit armed robberies, according to the Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Fugitive Unit found Baxter through surveillance. Deputies, with help from the Georgia State Patrol, pulled Baxter over in DeKalb County after he left a residence and got into a gray Nissan Sentra, according to the Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s important:<\/strong> The Sheriff’s Office said Baxter did not comply during the stop. Deputies used what the office called “controlled techniques” to bring him to the ground. An ambulance was called as a precaution, but Baxter turned down medical care, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He was taken to Gwinnett County Police headquarters, where detectives interviewed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What happens next:<\/strong> Baxter faces charges of home invasion, kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission or attempt to commit a felony. He is being held at the Gwinnett County Jail without bond. The Sheriff’s Office said the investigation is still active. No other suspects were named in the Feb. 6 release.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested Samuel Baxter in connection with armed robberies carried out by suspects posing as sheriff’s deputies. What’s happening: On Jan. 9, the Gwinnett County Police Department told the Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit that a group of suspects had been impersonating deputies to commit armed robberies, according to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":42591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[16686,21099],"class_list":["post-244295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-fugitive","tag-samuel-baxter","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}