Updated 07/08/2013: Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich told Slanderchick one of the two suspects accused in the Petro gas station robbery is now charged with attempted murder.
Both suspects appeared in court for bond hearings on assault and robbery charges Friday, July 5.
Slanderchick, however has learned Joseph Caples was also charged with attempted murder shortly after and will have to attend an additional bond hearing next week.
"In this situation, we understand now that there may have been an intent to actually fire the weapon at the clerk and if that is the case then we upgrade the charges to attempted murder," Rich told Slanderchick.
Zachery Moore and Joseph Caples are suspects in the robbery. Caples is accused of pistol whipping the cashier.
The victim said she tried to escape, but couldn’t.
"I tried to get out and run. I had my hair in a pony tail. He grabbed my hair by the pony tail and he pulled me back in he got the office open and he just started beating me in the head ‘Where's the tape? Where's the tape,’” the victim recalled.
Caples is charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree assault and attempted murder. His bond was set at $100,000 for robbery and $10,000 for assault. His preliminary hearing is set for July 22.
Rich said Moore will not be able to post bond due to probation issues.
07/04/2013- A man wanted on robbery and assault charges in Prichard has been arrested, according to jail records.
Both suspects appeared in court for bond hearings on assault and robbery charges Friday, July 5.
Slanderchick, however has learned Joseph Caples was also charged with attempted murder shortly after and will have to attend an additional bond hearing next week.
"In this situation, we understand now that there may have been an intent to actually fire the weapon at the clerk and if that is the case then we upgrade the charges to attempted murder," Rich told Slanderchick.
Zachery Moore and Joseph Caples are suspects in the robbery. Caples is accused of pistol whipping the cashier.
The victim said she tried to escape, but couldn’t.
"I tried to get out and run. I had my hair in a pony tail. He grabbed my hair by the pony tail and he pulled me back in he got the office open and he just started beating me in the head ‘Where's the tape? Where's the tape,’” the victim recalled.
Caples is charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree assault and attempted murder. His bond was set at $100,000 for robbery and $10,000 for assault. His preliminary hearing is set for July 22.
Rich said Moore will not be able to post bond due to probation issues.
07/04/2013- A man wanted on robbery and assault charges in Prichard has been arrested, according to jail records.
Mobile police booked Joseph Scott Caples, 24, in to Mobile County Metro Jail earlier today.
In an application for an arrest warrant, Prichard police Sgt. Victor Myles alleged that Caples and co-defendant Zachery Darnell Moore robbed the Petro Gas Station on St. Stephens Road on Sunday.
Myles alleged that Moore, who has been in police custody since Tuesday, acted as a lookout while Caples went inside armed with a handgun. Caples stole $20 from the store and $600 from the clerk, according to the arrest report in Moore’s case.
The clerk’s daughter told Fox 10 that the robber pistol-whipped her mother and forced her into a back room, where he tried to shoot her. He left when the clip fell out of the gun, the victim’s daughter told the TV station.
Court records show Caples was arrested in 2009 on drug charges. A charge of possession of drug paraphernalia was dropped. A judge sent a marijuana possession charge to a grand jury, but there is no public record of an indictment.
Moore pleaded guilty in 2011 to second-degree burglary, and Mobile County Circuit Judge Rick Stout sentenced him to five years in prison, with all but six months suspended. He ordered community corrections for that portion and three years’ probation.
Mobile County prosecutors have moved to revoke that probation in light of the new arrest, and send Moore back to prison for the remainder of his prison term.
The gas station at 4204 St. Stephens Road has been a robbery target before. On March 1, according to Prichard police, the store owner reported that two man snatched a black bag he was carrying in the parking lot. The bag contained $12, 000 in cash.
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