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Suspects Linked To Circle K Armed Robbery

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By HERNANDO TODAY STAFF

Published: January 21, 2009

BROOKSVILLE - A vigilant witness who wrote down a license plate number cracked the case of a Circle K robbery on Saturday, deputies say.

That license plate was registered to a woman at 8056 Winter St., but it was actually her brother, Matthew Nichol, 19, that deputies were searching for, a report shows.
Nichol reportedly borrowed the car Saturday night and drove a co-defendant, Matthew Morales, to the Circle K at 6227 Deltona Blvd. While Nichol waited in the driver's seat, Morales walked into the store with a pellet gun that resembles a semi-automatic weapon and robbed the cashier, according to an affidavit.

A witness scribbled down the tag of the fleeing car, which led deputies to Winter Street on Sunday. As detectives talked with Nichol's mother, her son called on her cell phone and told her he was "in a lot of trouble and did something bad," an affidavit shows.
Nichol turned himself in at the sheriff's office and was charged with principal to armed robbery.

On Monday, deputies knocked on the door at 14421 Diablo Ave. and asked to speak with the other suspect, Morales. His mother invited authorities inside and Morales was found hiding in a closet.

Morales, 22, was charged with armed robbery.

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