One Arrested for Tyler Robbery
Posted/updated on: February 21, 2011 at 1:20 pm
TYLER — One person has been arrested in connection with a Tyler robbery. It was reported around 12:30 Sunday morning at the Varsity Place Apartments at 3400 Varsity. The victim told officers he had been robbed at gunpoint by a white male subject who fled the scene on foot toward the back of the complex. Officers quickly located the suspect, identified as Brandon Scott Birdsong, 19.
Officers recovered a silver colored BB gun pistol from Birdsong. When they searched an apartment at the complex they were able to recover the property taken in the robbery as well as stolen property from an auto burglary which had just occurred at the apartment complex. Birdsong was booked into the Smith County Jail for aggravated robbery, auto burglary, and public intoxication.
