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Two men arrested after demanding Verizon store turn over all of its iPhones

This Monday, July 25, 2016, photo shows signage at a Verizon store, in North Andover, Mass. Verizon has cut jobs in stores across the country as it deals with increasing competition in the wireless industry. A union representative estimates that Verizon has cut hundreds or even thousands of jobs. Verizon spokeswoman Kim Ancin said Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, that stores will have fewer employees but refused to specify the size of the layoff a day earlier. She says estimates of thousands of cuts are “an exaggeration.” (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
This Monday, July 25, 2016, photo shows signage at a Verizon store, in North Andover, Mass. Verizon has cut jobs in stores across the country as it deals with increasing competition in the wireless industry. A union representative estimates that Verizon has cut hundreds or even thousands of jobs. Verizon spokeswoman Kim Ancin said Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, that stores will have fewer employees but refused to specify the size of the layoff a day earlier. She says estimates of thousands of cuts are “an exaggeration.” (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) This Monday, July 25, 2016, photo shows signage at a Verizon store, in North Andover, Mass. Verizon has cut jobs in stores across the country as it deals with increasing competition in the wireless industry. A union representative estimates that Verizon has cut hundreds or even thousands of jobs. Verizon spokeswoman Kim Ancin said Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, that stores will have fewer employees but refused to specify the size of the layoff a day earlier. She says estimates of thousands of cuts are “an exaggeration.” (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

By Staff Report 2 min read

Two South Carolina men are in custody after robbing a Verizon Wireless store Saturday in Dalton, Ga.

The incident happened about 7:30 Saturday at the Verizon store on Shugart Road. A man, later identified as 23-year-old Jacody Domonique Gunter, of Conway, S.C., entered the store while an employee was in the back area doing inventory, according to a news release from the Dalton Police Department. When the employee came back into the front of the store, he was confronted by Gunter, who pointed a handgun at him and demanded all of the store’s iPhones.

The store employee complied, taking him into the back and filling Gunter’s backpack with iPhone boxes and placing the rest of the phones in a Verizon bag. After fleeing the store, Gunter got into a yellow Ford Mustang driven by 23-year old David Rowell Jr. of Marion, S.C.

No one was hurt in the incident.

The Georgia State Patrol stopped the Mustang on Interstate 75 in Acworth, Ga., just more than an hour later and recovered the phones. Gunter and Rowell were arrested and taken to the Whitfield County Jail.

Gunter is charged with armed robbery, kidnapping, aggravated assault, simple assault, making false statements to a law enforcement officer, wearing a mask to conceal identity, pointing a firearm at another, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. David Rowell Jr. is charged with theft by receiving stolen property.