On January 25, Rio Rancho Police responded to the Cricket Wireless store located at 1109 Highway 528 SE in response to a call for an armed robbery. The male suspect, who was wearing all black clothes and a black gator mask, brandished a gun and demanded the clerk give him cell phones. Cricket employees told police that the suspect “looked like a security guard.”
According to an incident report, on January 25, “approximately an hour and a half after the robbery” one of the stolen iPhones was sold to a Walmart ecoATM, which requires sellers to verify their identity by driver’s license. The seller was identified as Lawrence Jackson III. The next day on Jan 26 a second phone matched to the robbery was sold to the same ecoATM.
Police and Walmart Asset Protection were able to identify the sellers of the stolen phones on both days as well as the dark-colored SUV they drove. Surveillance also showed the men greeted at the cash register by a third person “dressed in black BDU’s, tactical boots, and wearing a leather computer bag displaying a badge on his belt loop… He turns to leave where the camera was able to view the letters on his chest. The letters spelled out Fauntleroy.” RRPD investigators used “publicly available social media photographs to positively identify the male as David Fauntleroy” and the vehicle he drives.
Surveillance footage from the Cricket store robbery shows the armed suspect leaving the parking lot in a dark-colored SUV and confirmed that Fauntleroy owns an SUV matching the description of the getaway vehicle. Walmart surveillance footage also shows the suspect/sellers of the stolen cell phones traveling in a dark-colored SUV matching the description of Fauntleroy’s vehicle.
On February 2, Rio Rancho Police arrested Fauntleroy, who was booked at the Sandoval County Detention Center and charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Jackson III was booked at SCDC the same day on a robbery charge as well.