A Deadly Robbery ... And A Mystery Man On The Loose

At first, the three men who entered Stile's Farmers Market in Lauderhill, Florida on October 4, 2003, looked and acted like any other customers. They seemed to be looking through the produce and items on the store shelves. One of the men even began pushing a shopping cart around, loading a few things into it.

Then the men revealed the real reason why they'd come to the store that Sunday: to rob it. Without warning, witnesses say, one of the men pulled out a hand gun and opened fire at the only visible threat to their plan, a security guard. Yonel Barthelemy fell to the ground, mortally wounded. It was his first day on the job.

Police and witnesses say the two other robbers made their way to the store's office, where they pistol-whipped two employees and threatened to kill them unless they opened the safe. "He grabs me by the back of my hair and pulls me up by my hair and puts the gun to my head," remembers Margaret Stile. "He goes: 'you don't open this safe, I'm going to blow your head off!' It was a miracle I remembered the numbers."

The gang grabbed thousands of dollars and fled. Security cameras caught one of them running through the parking lot, clutching a bag of cash. Another robber can be seen tossing money into a shopping cart, then rushing through the store, plowing right over the dying security guard's legs.

Great Tip, High Tech Help Crack The Case

When Broward County Sheriff's detective Glenn Bukata got the case, at first he didn't have much in the way of clues to the robbers' identities. But he knew the store's surveillance video would be key. And when he released parts of it to the local media, he hit pay dirt.

A woman called him to say that she recognized one of the men seen robbing the store. It was her own son, Fabidan McKoy. "I knew that my son was involved," Sarah McKoy told America's Most Wanted. "I had to do the right thing. And the right thing was to call the police."

Sarah didn't know where her son was hiding. But she told Detective Bukata that one of the other men seen in the tape went by the street name "Magnum." The investigator would soon learn his real identity, thanks to some high tech police work.

Witnesses had pointed out one of the shopping carts the robbers had used -- they'd abandoned it, full of groceries, when the robbery began. Lab technicians carefully removed the cart's plastic handle, and put it into a Super Glue Chamber. In that device, Super Glue is heated until it turns to vapor. The vapor sticks to fingerprint residue left behind on the plastic. The method worked perfectly -- and when Detective Bukata ran the resulting print, he quickly got a match: Robert Fraser, the man known on the street as "Magnum."

With two suspects identified, it didn't take long for police to track them down and arrest them. But there was still one suspect on the loose -- the man accused of gunning down the security guard. And Detective Bukata still didn't know who he was.

Pink Named As Suspect - But Where Is He?

But the veteran investigator had one more trick up his sleeve. He pulled Fraser and McKoy's cell phone records and compared them. He found that they'd called each other many times on the day of the robbery. And they'd also made a lot of calls to another number. When he traced it, it came back to a man named Damar Pink.

Police haven't been able to locate Pink, or to learn very much about their fugitive, other than that he turned 18 on the night he's accused of murdering Yonel Barthelemy. Pink has no prior criminal record -- not even a parking ticket. The best tip cops have is that he may be working for a trucker as a laborer on an 18-wheeler that makes runs between Colorado and Nevada.

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Pink Taken Down

Lauderhill detectives are celebrating after the arrest of Damar Pink, who police say murdered Yonel Barthelemy during a robbery in 2003. After watching America's Most Wanted and confirming Pink's identity on the AMW website, a tipster called Hartford, Connecticut police and informed them of Pink's whereabouts. Police say Pink has been hiding out in his father's house in Hartford, Connecticut, living in his basement and only coming upstairs to eat. But, Pink's hideout wasn't good enough!

On January 26, 2005, FBI agents and Hartford police officers took him down as he was leaving the house to take his stepmother to a doctor's appointment. Around 8:45 a.m., police say Pink got in the car, but FBI vehicles blocked him in. Pink then threw the car in reverse, slammed into the FBI vehicle and tried to escape. But, a SWAT team moved in with guns drawn, pulled him from the car and arrested him.