Police quickly capture robbery suspects

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Mobile Police said four men robbed another man in a parking lot outside a gas station on Michigan Avenue early Wednesday.

It happened at 1:20 the morning of Nov. 5 at a Shell Station on Michigan Avenue. They said a man was in his car when four other men robbed him.

Police aren't saying what the men took from him, but they said they took off in a maroon Lincoln Town Car, driving west on Eagle Dr. from Michigan Ave.

Police said they didn't get far.

They said an alert officer spotted the car about a mile away at Dauphin Island Pkwy. and Gimon Cir. Police arrested Paulie Rogers, Ladarius Peterson, James Crandle and Xzavier Graham.

All four men are charged with first degree robbery in the case.

One person we talked to at the Shell station said police definitely did their job in this situation.

He said, "I'm glad to see that they do catch these kinds of guys, and these are the kinds of guys we need to focus more on and I wish they would catch a lot more of them."

Rogers has an especially long arrest record: more than 50 charges including attempted murder, first degree robbery and receiving stolen property.

The man we talked to said he just worries that they might be back on the street again soon.

He said, "It only makes sense to me that, if they did catch them, and would punish them in the right way, maybe they wouldn't be back on the street so much, or doing it.  When I came up, we knew what we were going to get before we did it, and, if it was severe enough, you made sure you didn't do that."