NEW ALBANY —
A man convicted in the 2003 armed robbery of Tumbleweed Restaurant, located at Charlestown Crossing Way, was sentenced to 10 years in the Indiana Department of Correction on Wednesday.
Curtis L. Brown Jr., 40, of 3426 Grant Street in Louisville, was sentenced for the class B felony in Floyd County Superior Court No. 1 as Judge Susan Orth presided.
Brown was on Floyd County’s Most Wanted list from 2008 to 2010 for his involvement in the crime.
According the probable cause affidavit written in 2004 by now Maj. Jeff Topping, during the Aug. 17, 2003 robbery, Brown and another man, Victor Colon, entered the restaurant and robbed an employee at gunpoint.
Brown shoved the pistol in a female employee’s side during the incident, according to the affidavit.
Two women, Joni Dixon and Andrea Overton waited outside the eatery in a vehicle acting as a get away driver and lookout.
The four received information about the operating procedures of the restaurant and how to rob it from a previous Tumbleweed employee, Amanda Chambers the affidavit alleged.
After Brown and Colon stole $4,998.52 from the restaurant, the men fled on foot to the get away vehicle, which was parked at a nearby apartment complex.
Police pursued the vehicle on several roadways, until it came to a stop at another apartment community.
As the vehicle stopped, the men fled on foot and the two women were taken into custody.
As the investigation progressed both Colon and Chambers were arrested, but they were unable to provide police with Brown’s real name, saying they only knew him by his street name, Moe.
Nearly a year after the robbery, the Floyd County prosecutor’s office received an anonymous phone call from an individual who said that Moe, who was wanted in the Tumbleweed robbery, was Curtis Brown.
For eight years, Brown eluded Floyd County lawmen.
In early 2011, Floyd County deputies located Brown in the Green River Correctional Complex in Central City, Ky., where he was serving a 10-year sentence for a first-degree drug trafficking conviction in Jefferson County, Ky.
According to court documents, Brown’s 10-year Floyd County sentencing will run consecutive with the time he is serving for the Jefferson County conviction.
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