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Suspected driver in robberies arrested

By Richard Gould | Hickory Daily Record

Published: October 28, 2009

Hickory - A teenage girl accused of being the getaway driver in a robbery last spring has been arrested.

Hickory police arrested Elisha Marie Carter, 18, of Newton, on Tuesday. She was charged with robbery with a firearm. Her bond was set at $25,000 secured.

She is accused of driving the getaway car after a robbery on June 1.

That night, a 50-year-old Hickory man drove into his garage at about 10:45 p.m. and two men with handguns charged into the garage behind him before he had a chance to close the garage door.

According to police reports, the men demanded money, and he gave them his wallet.

"Then they got into a waiting vehicle and fled the scene," said Sgt. Brett Porter of the Hickory Police Department. "We have learned that (Carter) was the driver."

Hickory police arrested the two men suspected of the robbery within 10 days of the incident.

Mykael Killian Thompson, 21, of Hickory, was arrested June 9 and charged with robbery with a firearm. His bond was set at $75,000 secured.

Hickory police arrested Alexander Emanual Moss, 19, of Newton, on June 11. He was charged with robbery with a firearm and resisting a public officer. His bond was set at $40,500 secured.

Two months later, Thompson and Moss were charged with a similar robbery that occurred on the Lenoir-Rhyne University campus at around midnight on May 25.

A couple was sitting in a car that night eating when two men walked up to the car. One of them brandished a handgun and robbed the victims, according to police reports.

Carter is a suspect in that crime as well, but has yet to be charged in that case, Porter said.

All three suspects are in custody in the Catawba County jail.