Nineteen Year Old Arrested for Aspen Heights Armed Robbery

On July 26, Officers from the Statesboro Police Department and Statesboro-Bulloch Crime Suppression Team responded to an armed robbery call at Aspen Heights Apartments. The offender had left the scene and was not located.

Detective Travis Kreun with the Criminal Investigations Bureau began investigating the case and identified 19 year-old Fazion Rashard Branch of Millen as an offender in the armed robbery. Det. Kreun secured warrants for his arrest.

Branch was arrested on August 22 by the Jenkins County Sheriff’s Office on the active warrant from this case. He was taken to the Bulloch County Jail, where he remains while awaiting further court action.

This case is still under investigation and no further information is being released at this time.