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Four people were charged with more than 50 crimes in connection to a string of armed robberies across Myrtle Beach late Tuesday evening into early Wednesday morning, May 13鈥14.

Myrtle Beach Police Department is investigating the armed robberies, which happened around Broadway at the Beach and into the northern parts of the city.

Police said two men carried out the armed robberies while two women operated the vehicle.

Drevon Kennedy, 21, faces three charges of armed robbery, seven charges of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, breaking into motor vehicles, conspiracy, burglary in the first degree, kidnapping, assault in first degree and carjacking, according to arrest warrants.

Asa Price,19, faces four charges of armed robbery, nine charges of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, breaking into motor vehicles, conspiracy, burglary in the first degree, kidnapping, assault in first degree, carjacking, and one charge of discharging weapons into vehicles, according to arrest warrants.

Allanah Clark-Anderson, 18, and Kaharee Simmons, 19, both face four charges of accessory after the fact, one charge of conspiracy for operating the 2017 silver sedan while Price and Kennedy committed armed robberies at four different locations.

The two women also face one charge each for transporting open alcohol in a vehicle.

The two men and two women were booked at J. Reuben Long Detention Center on May 15.

The first incident happened in the parking lot of a Hampton Inn at Celebrity Circle around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, police said. Warrants state Kennedy and Price approached the passenger side of a Chevy Silverado while the victim鈥檚 husband backed into a spot. Kennedy and Price pointed a gun at the victim鈥檚 chest and told her to give him her purse and exit the vehicle, according to the warrant.

The suspects took $135 in cash, 12 credit/debit cards and one social security card, the incident report states.

Kennedy and Price also are accused of breaking into a 2023 Chevy Silverado at the Hampton Inn. The two were seen on surveillance footage, and the victim verified 鈥渢hat someone had gone through his vehicle looking for items,鈥 the warrant states. There were no valuable items taken from inside the vehicle.

The second incident was reported in the parking lot of the Hilton 22 Hotel on Ocean Boulevard. Kennedy and Price allegedly approached someone who was getting a bottle of wine from his van and told him to give his phone and wallet, according to incident reports. The victim told them he did not have his phone or wallet and the suspects began going through the van. The incident report states the victim advised the defendants had an 鈥淯ZI鈥 style gun pointed at him and repeated, 鈥淲hat are you gonna do about it?鈥 The taller suspect grabbed the bottle of wine, threw it on the ground and took off running, according to the incident report.

The third incident took place at 4001 N. Kings Highway, by Burky鈥檚 Grill. The suspects approached a parked vehicle, tapped on the window and demanded the victim鈥檚 wallet and phone, according to arrest warrants. The incident report states the victim could not understand what the masked men said, but were pulling on the car door handles while the victim drove away.

The arrest warrant states Price fired a single round at the vehicle while the victim drove away.

A fourth incident was reported at 6631 Colonial Drive after midnight. According to the arrest warrant, Kennedy and Price made a noise to alert the homeowner and when the homeowner opened the front door, the suspects were in the doorway and forced themselves into the dwelling.

The incident report states the victim told the suspects he would give them money and while he went to his room to get his wallet, the suspects followed him and struck him in the face.

Arrest warrants state Kennedy and Price forced the victim to his room by gunpoint and demanded the victim鈥檚 credit cards and laptop.

The suspects then told the victim to get into his car and drive to ATMs, according to the incident report.

The other victim said to officers he overheard his friend yelling with the suspects and the suspects then forced him by gunpoint into the other victim's car.

Kennedy and Price forced the victims to the Bank of America ATM located inside the Food Lion on North Kings Highway to take money out, but was unsuccessful, according to the incident report.

The two victims were then forced to drive to Wells Fargo ATM on North Oak Street where one withdrew $450 and was struck in the face with the suspect鈥檚 fist and handgun the entire time, according to the incident report.

The other victim was forced to withdraw $1,000 from the Wells Fargo ATM which the suspects took, the incident report states.

According to arrest warrants, while in the vehicle, the suspect with the firearm would strike the victim in the head with a gun whenever the victim would speak Spanish with the other victim.

The arrest warrant says the victims were forced to drive to four ATMs.

The incident report says officers responding to the scene saw obvious facial swelling and a nose bleed on the two victims.

According to arrest warrants, once they drove to the Wells Fargo ATM, the defendant 鈥渢hen placed the victim in the back seat of their vehicle, and he drives off back toward the victim's residence.鈥

Clark-Anderson and Simmons were then only able to locate and pick up Kennedy, police said.

Price, in a fifth incident, was hiding in the bushes from police near 810 65th Ave. N. and approached a victim returning home from work, the warrant states.

The incident report states the victim saw the suspect hiding behind trees and noticed the police vehicles in the area. The victim exited her vehicle when she thought the suspect was gone.

According to the warrant, Price approached the victim as she exited her vehicle, showed her the gun in his waistband and said to give him her phone and car keys.

The victim fought the suspect to keep her car keys, reached for a pair of scissors from her center console with which she used to threaten the suspect, police said.

The suspect grabbed her phone, which was recovered, and took off running, the incident report states.

Clark-Anderson, Simmons and Kennedy were arrested in a traffic stop at the 800 block of Duncan Avenue and Colonial Circle for suspicious driving and the officer observed two open alcohol containers in the vehicle.

Clark-Anderson鈥檚 bail for four charges of accessory after the fact totals $800,000, $100,000 bail for conspiracy and $257 for alcohol.

Simmons鈥 bail for four charges of accessory after the fact are $1 million, $100,000 for conspiracy and $257 for alcohol.

Kennedy鈥檚 bail for six charges of possession of a weapon during a violent crime totals $600,000 and a seventh possession charge with bail set at $25,000. No bail is set for the other charges, according to J. Reuben jail records.

Price鈥檚 bail for eight of the possession charges totals $800,000, with one charge having no bail set. His bail for conspiracy is $100,000, $100,000 for discharging a firearm, $100,000 bail for carjacking and $25,000 bail for breaking into a motor vehicle.

No bail is set for Price鈥檚 armed robbery, burglary and kidnapping charges.

Sazie Eagan is a reporter for MyHorry黑料社入口. Reach her at 802-558-1758 or sazie.eagan@myhorrynews.com

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Valkyrie14

What a crime spree! All caught pretty quickly by the Police Department, great work! Hopefully they鈥檙e all behind bars still, waiting trial. The getaway drivers hopefully get more charges being accessories and same sentences. Shame how bad it鈥檚 gotten in MB and surrounding areas. Only way to correct it is to purge the areas of the criminals like back in the day, before Covid, justice reform, illegals, and other trash made the grand strand a place of criminal opportunity.

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