ATLANTA — Federal agents say a Georgia inmate may have been the mastermind behind a North Carolina jewelry store robbery.
A criminal complaint says Deuntria Lyons, communicated and helped guide the thieves before the robbery.
Lyons is currently serving six life sentences for doing the same thing more than a decade ago.
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“The level of sophistication here is unusual compared to what we typically see in the state of Georgia,” Chris Timmons, a former prosecutor, told Channel 2′s Michael Doudna.
According to a criminal complaint, a suspect scoped out the North Carolina store a few weeks before the robbery.
The suspect then sent videos of the layout to an Instagram account that authorities would later link to Lyons.
Messages between the suspect and Lyons included the planning of multiple thefts.
“There has to be something the prison system can do to prevent this guy from getting cell phones, quite frankly, this is embarrassing for the prison system in the state of Georgia,” Timmons said.