Three men arrested on charges of first-degree robbery

12/26/1980 |

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Hartford Police arrested three men at gunpoint at Main and Elmer streets at noon and charged them with first-degree robbery.

The three suspects were Willie A. Brooks, Edward Hawkins, and Muhammad Shabazz.
Around 11:30, a Copaco deliveryman was robbed of $300 worth of meat in front of the Divi-Divi Café at 167 Barbour Street.
According to police:

Brooks accosted the deliveryman and forced him to unlock the back of his truck.
Brooks removed two cases of meat and handed them to Hawkins
Brooks and Hawkins then fled in a station wagon driven by Shabazz.
The deliveryman reported the robbery from the Divi-Divi Café
Madison W. Bolden, Charles Morris, and Paul Vanderheiden spotted Brooks standing outside the station wagon with a case of meat in his hands.

Hawkins was also charged with possession of heroin and cocaine, after police found these drugs on his person.
Hawkins was also charged with third-degree burglary and first-degree larceny stemming from an earlier incident for which police had obtained an arrest warrant.

The article gave Hawkins’s address as 102 Huntington Street.

Hawkins appeared in Superior Court on charges of first-degree assault and first-degree robbery on October 26, 1979.

Madison W. Bolden, Charles Morris, and Paul Vanderheiden were all detectives with the Hartford Police Department.

Unattributed. “Three men charged with stealing meat,” Hartford Courant, December 27, 1980, page C2.

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