On a Tuesday night four months ago, two armed men, wearing ski masks, showed up at a home in Montgomery County, tied up two of the residents and demanded: “Where is the money?”
What may have seemed random at the time, according to court records, was nothing of the sort. The men had earlier placed a GPS tracker on the car belonging to one of the home’s residents — a man who was a frequent visitor to a casino 50 miles away in Baltimore.
Police officials said Monday they had arrested one suspect — Kevin Darnell Carroll, 44, of Baltimore — and are searching for his accomplice. Officials said the GPS device was attached to the car at the casino and was used to find the victim’s address.
Arrest records, filed in court last week, spell out elements of the heist and how it came to light.
Among other details, a wife who lived at the Montgomery home — in the Darnestown-Germantown area — had hired a private investigator to keep tabs on her husband.
The private investigator tailed the husband to the Horseshoe Casino, and after the private investigator had put a GPS on the husband’s car and was still nearby, he saw another man crawling under the car with a flashlight. Eventually two GPS devices were on the car — the robbers’ and the investigator’s, according to the police.
During the later home invasion robbery, two occupants of the home — a 21-year-old male and 14-year-old female — were zip-tied, and the girl had her mouth taped shut. No serious injuries were reported by police.
Carroll and his accomplice are alleged to have stolen about $6,000 and an iPhone.
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For detectives, the case began the night of Nov. 17, after the two victims freed themselves from the zip-ties and called 911. At the scene, the victims’ mother asked one on the detectives “if she could speak to him,” and told the detective she had hired a private investigator to follow her husband — and told them about the GPS tracker.
Detectives later spoke to the private investigator, according to a police spokesman.
The investigator told detectives about following the husband on Nov. 11 to the casino, where the husband had been going about six days a week and “was gambling with large sums of money,” according to the arrest warrant. The private investigator said that while the husband was inside, he saw two men acting stealthily near the husband’s car, one of whom crawled underneath it with a flashlight.
Six days later, according to the arrest records, two masked, armed suspects showed up at the man’s home. They appeared to have been waiting nearby, and followed two occupants of the home into the garage as the pair of occupants were returning from having gone out to get something to eat.
The two men pointed guns at the pair, ordered them to the ground and tied them up. One of the suspects then took the 21-year-old into the home, asking where money was located. The victim took the gunman to “various locations in the house where money was kept,” according to the arrest records.
The two men fled with money.
Crime scene investigators tested for DNA on zip-ties, duct tape and the GPS tracker from the robbery site. They were able to match DNA from the duct tape to Carroll, according to the arrest records.
Police arrested him last week. They say they found a ski mask and a gun at his home believed to have been used in the robbery. Carroll was charged with home invasion, armed robbery, assault and other counts, according to police.
Police provided only a minor, vague description of his suspected accomplice. Anyone with information about the case can call 1-866-411-TIPS (8477). A reward of up to $10,000 is available.
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