Charged in a Wednesday morning robbery are, clockwise from top left, Brandon Dixon, Wendell Moore and Candace Anderson, all of Tyler, Texas.

MOULTRIE — A trio of Texans was rounded up early Wednesday morning by a deputy about 15 minutes after an alert went out of an armed robbery at a Moultrie motel.

The victim told police that three people in a dark-colored SUV stopped as he was walking on Third Avenue Southwest in the area behind Wendy’s restaurant. One of the passengers offered him a ride and he initially declined, but eventually changed his mind and got in.

“He told them to take him to Cocomo Inn,” Moultrie Police Department Inv. Eric Hill said. “They got there and apparently one of the passengers brandished a firearm and said to give them everything he had. They ended up taking his shoes as well.”

Patrol officers responded to a call at about 1:35 a.m. to the motel on First Avenue Southwest. The victim described the assailants’ car as a dark-colored Chevrolet Yukon or Tahoe with Texas license plates.

“I received a call around 1:48 advising me of the incident and that a (Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office) deputy was out with a vehicle matching the description of the offenders’,” Hill said. 

At that time the victim was asked to describe the three from the SUV and he said that there had been two black males and a black female, matching those inside, he said. 

Officers found property belonging to the man, including an identification card, Hill said.

“We did not recover (any) money, but we did recover an ID of his, a Georgia ID, his shoes and two cell phones,” Hill said.

In addition to the cash that was reported missing, officers also did not find a weapon inside the SUV. They took the three, all from Tyler, Texas, into custody.

Charged with armed robbery were: Brandon Monquez Dixon, 28, 1500 Gulid St.; Wendell Moore, 33, 2208 N. Moore St.; and Candace Krystal Anderson, 27, 1801 N. Grand Ave.

All three have amassed criminal records in Texas, Hill said. Effective communications from Colquitt County 911 and among the various agencies helped in their apprehension, Hill said.

“They definitely worked well that night getting information out,” he said.