Authorities arrest suspect tied to Marble Falls, Austin area robberies
Authorities have arrested the man believed to be in these surveillance photos from the GameStop in Marble Falls. On Dec. 8 the suspect allegedly robbed the store at gun point. Law enforcement agencies in several other Central Texas cities are also investigating the man for his involvement in a string of armed robberies. Courtesy photos
FROM STAFF REPORTS
AUSTIN — Authorities have arrested a Buda man for allegedly robbing multiple GameStop and Sally’s Beauty Supply stores at gunpoint in the Central Texas area, including one in Marble Falls, according to police reports.
Authorities said after he was captured on Dec. 9 at an Austin-area motel, 42-year-old Rusty Matthew Jordan of Buda admitted he carried out the crimes, which included locations in Austin, Marble Falls, Round Rock and New Braunfels.
Austin Police Department connected the suspect to robberies at Sally’s Beauty Supply on Research Boulevard and Interstate 35 as well as a GameStop on Interstate 35 and a SAS Compass Shoes on Interstate 35.
Austin detectives also reported similar robberies at Sally Beauty Supply stores on West University Avenue in Georgetown and Creekside Way in New Braunfels, as well as GameStop stores in Round Rock and Marble Falls.
“Marble Falls detectives were able to positively link that suspect to the robbery in Marble Falls,” according to a statement by the Austin PD.
Marble Falls Police Department investigators obtained an arrest warrant for the suspect who they connected to a Dec. 8 armed robbery in Marble Falls through surveillance video.
Just after 4 p.m. Tuesday, an armed robber wearing a light-colored hooded sweatshirt entered the GameStop, in the 2400 block of U.S. 281, walked behind the register and demanded cash, according to the MFPD arrest warrant.
“He produced a handgun, ordered the store employees [including the manager] to give him the cash from the registers,” the document states. “They complied and the suspect fled the scene with approximately $610 in cash.”
In that incident several customers and employees were ordered onto the floor, but no one was injured.
In the Round Rock GameStop incident, the suspect “grabbed a female customer, put a pistol to her head, and ordered the clerk to open the register and put cash and Nintendo game consoles and (a) PS4 into (a) GameStop shopping bag,” according an Austin PD case description.
No injuries or shots were reported in the string of reports.
The suspect was booked into the Travis County Jail where he is being held in lieu of $325,000 in bonds.
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