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23-year-old Katriel Girtley of Louisiana and 20-year-old Amaya Thompson of Fort Worth (Source: Lake Worth Police Department) <\/p>\n
LAKE WORTH, Texas<\/strong> – Quick action by Lake Worth police officers led to the arrest of two individuals early Thursday morning following an armed robbery at a convenience store. The arrests happened just minutes after authorities received a silent panic alarm from the store.<\/p>\n Lake Worth Armed Robbery <\/p>\n Timeline:<\/p>\n At 4:36 a.m., the NWECC received a silent panic alarm, quickly followed by a 911 call reporting a male suspect had threatened a store clerk with a handgun and demanded cash. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n Lake Worth officers arrived on the scene, with the first officer at 4:39 a.m., followed by two more within minutes. By 4:42 a.m., six minutes after the initial alert, three officers were on site.<\/p>\n The suspect’s vehicle was found at 4:43 a.m. in the parking lot of a nearby business. Officers approached and detained 23-year-old Katriel Girtley of Louisiana, who matched the robbery suspect’s description. Also arrested was 20-year-old Amaya Thompson of Fort Worth, identified as the getaway driver and accomplice.<\/p>\n (Source: Lake Worth Police Department) <\/p>\n Police recovered a loaded 9mm pistol with an extended magazine containing 28 rounds, matching the description of the weapon used in the robbery.<\/p>\n Girtley, who authorities say has a violent criminal history including prior charges of murder and aggravated assault with a firearm, and Thompson have both been charged with aggravated robbery. Additional charges are anticipated.<\/p>\n During the initial investigation, officers received information from a neighboring law enforcement agency regarding similar robberies in their jurisdiction, with Girtley matching the suspect’s description in those cases.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is from the Lake Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n Lake Worth<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 23-year-old Katriel Girtley of Louisiana and 20-year-old Amaya Thompson of Fort Worth (Source: Lake Worth Police Department)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,41192,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-56121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-lake-worth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}