HOUSTON – Investigators said a news story on Click2Houston.com helped track down two suspects wanted in a violent robbery of guns at a local sporting goods store.
Curtis Duncan, 25, and William Eason, 24, are sitting in a Harris County Jail cell without the option to walk out on bond. Both men are convicted felons who have had multiple run-ins with the law. In this latest case, investigators said one of the suspects confessed to the entire crime.
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The two are accused of committing dangerous crimes -- kidnapping a security guard and then using him to steal guns from the warehouse of a local retail giant.
Duncan appeared in court last week to face a judge on the charges.
According to court documents, Duncan and Eason committed the crimes just over two weeks ago at an Academy Sports and Outdoors warehouse in Katy.
A security guard at one of the gates was reportedly approached by a guy wanting to know how he could apply for a job there. But the security guard said that's when the man pistol-whipped him in the head and forced him into the back seat of a car with two other robbers.
The suspects allegedly demanded the security guard hand over the keys to the Academy storage trailers that carry store merchandise, including firearms.
The security guard told police the guys said "they would kill him" if he didn't give them his keys, so he agreed. He said they made him "strip down to his underwear" and he was "driven around the area for a while" so the other suspects could cut through the fence at the Academy warehouse and open the trailers.
Investigators said they got away with more than 70 guns.
Police in La Porte said one of the guns ended up in the hands of a man who lives there. Court documents state that when Harris County investigators saw our story about his arrest on Click2Houston.com, they went to question him and were led to the suspects accused in the kidnapping.
The security guard told police the robbers eventually dropped him off about three miles away from the warehouse at I-10 and Grand Parkway, where he said he flagged down a driver who took him to the hospital.