Two Gainesville teenagers have been charged as adults after allegedly robbing a taxi driver at gunpoint.
Authorities on August 24 arrested brothers Emmanuel Mendoza, 14, and Ismael Mendoza, 16. The Mendozas are suspects in an armed holdup last week on Floyd Road, east of Gainesville.
According to the preliminary investigation, on the afternoon of August 19, a 46-year-old male taxi driver responded to a call for service in the 1600 block of Floyd Road.
“When he arrived at the pickup location, an unknown number of individuals pointed guns at him and demanded money,” a news release from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office states. “The victim complied, and the suspects ran off on foot.”
After the robbery, deputies checked the area but did not find any suspects.
Hall County investigators charged the Mendoza brothers after Gainesville police took them into custody while investigating a similar armed robbery in the area of Lee Street in the city.
Both robberies remain under investigation.
