A Beech Grove teenager was arrested after police said he robbed two hotels at gunpoint and forced acquaintances to drive the get-away car Monday night.
The 17-year-old was arrested on charges of robbery, pointing a firearm and carrying a handgun without a license, according to a Greenwood Police Department report.
The Holiday Inn Express in Greenwood and another hotel in Marion County were robbed, and two teenage girls were held at gunpoint and forced to drive a car for the robber, the report said.
One of the girls had received a message from the teen asking if they could go smoke, but after the girls picked him up, he pulled out a handgun and told them to drive to the hotels, the report said.
At Holiday Inn Express & Suites, located at Interstate 65 and County Line Road, the robber pointed a gun at the hotel clerk, jumped over the counter and demanded that she open the cash register, the report said. The teen took the money and left after being told the clerk didn’t have access to the safe and wouldn’t give him her cars keys, the report said. That incident happened about 11 p.m.
A witness outside the hotel wrote down the license plate number of the car, which police used to locate the two girls who had been forced to drive the vehicle, the report said. Their information helped police locate the suspect, the report said.
The details of the robbery in Marion County were not available.
The teen was arrested and taken to the Greenwood Police Department. He matched the person caught on audio and video during the robbery of the Greenwood hotel, the report said.
