GPS tracker on stolen cash led Denver to arrests

Police arrested two men accused of terrorizing customers and employees of a Denver marijuana dispensary during a July armed robbery before they allegedly joined two other suspects and robbed the store again two weeks later.

Tayone Givens, 21, and Thomas Wilson, 23, are charged with two counts of second-degree kidnapping, two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of crime of violence, a sentence enhancer, in connection with the July 28 robbery of the Green Dragon Cannabis shop at 5130 E. Colfax Ave.

Givens and Wilson are also charged with one count of aggravated robbery and two counts of first-degree kidnapping in connection with the Aug. 14 robbery of the store.

Two other defendants, Myles Stephens, 28, and Marrell Jones, 26, face similar charges for the August robbery.

Police followed a signal from a tracking device secreted in the cash that the thieves took during the Aug. 14 robbery and caught all four suspects, according to a probable cause statement.

Three people were in the shop at about 9:30 p.m. that night when three men came in, pointed pistols at the victims and ordered them to get on the floor.

The thieves plundered two cash registers and took “numerous packages of marijuana,” according to police records.

About 10 minutes later, police received a call from a company that monitors GPS devices that are placed in business cash drawers.