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A repeat felon from Oklahoma is set to spend the rest of his life in prison over three Marietta robberies in 2016, Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds announced Monday . On Friday, a Cobb jury convicted 40 -year-old Rodney Kinchelle Howell of stealing purses from three women outside three Marietta stores in April of last year. All three robberies occurred in the daytime, and in one instance, a stolen purse yielded a handgun used in a later attack, said Kim Isaza, spokesperson for the DA’s office. Howell’s codefendant, Cheyenne Nicole Rogers , 23, also of Oklahoma, pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges related to the robberies. The first robbery occurred at 11 a.m. on April 5, 2016, when Howell and Rogers went to the Walmart on Cobb Parkway near the Big Chicken. As the two followed an 86-year-old woman and her 64-year-old daughter out of the store, Howell grabbed the mother’s purse and ran. Rogers got into a 2007 Cadillac Escalade with Oklahoma tags, and both fled th...

MARIETTA, GA — Two Marietta men convicted of murdering a woman in a Smyrna apartment have been sentenced to life without parole plus five years in confinement. After a two-week-long trial, a Cobb jury on Friday found Simeon Gashon Moore , 27, and Walter Vernell Milbourne , 31, guilty of murder, aggravated assault, burglary, armed robbery, violation of Georgia controlled substances act , and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony. Moore was also convicted of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer. On Nov. 12, 2014, the defendants and their co-defendant, Kevin Nathanial Robinson , attempted to conduct a drug transaction with Jamie Milton, 29, the boyfriend of victim Jamie Adedra Moore , 24. Robinson left his cell phone in Milton’s vehicle, and the defendants saw Milton drive back into the Mission Galleria Apartments in Smyrna. They then drove around the apartment complex until they found Milton’s vehicle, a Buick LeSabre. Milbourne and Robinson then began knoc...