By AP
LANSING, MI –
Law enforcement agencies say they've solved a string of armed robberies from 2009 in and around Lansing with recent guilty pleas and convictions.
Details were announced Friday at a media briefing including the U.S. attorney's office, the FBI and the Lansing police department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Maltbie says the convictions and pleas clear 28 previously unsolved armed robberies, although the indictments in the case don't include all those crimes.
Maltbie says some of the robberies were to finance interests related to rap and hip-hop music.
Twenty-five-year-old Jordon Jamar Ford and 21-year-old Jasper Burnett Perdue were convicted by a federal jury in Grand Rapids for their roles in the robberies. Both are from Lansing.
Five others pleaded guilty in the case, and one suspect remains at large.