Officers with the Waterloo Police Department's Violent Crime Apprehension Team have filed additional charges stemming from a robbery that occurred in March of this year.  On December 3, 2015 Officers obtained a warrant for robbery in the 1st degree for twenty-year-old Marcus Robert Sykes of Waterloo.  Sykes is currently being held in Federal custody on unrelated gun charges.

On March 27, 2015 at 0017 hours Waterloo Officers responded to a gunshot victim at Covenant Emergency Room. Officers identified the victim as twenty-year-old Marquis Devonte Norris . During the investigation officers were able to determine that Norris was shot during a botched drug deal in the 1400 block of Jefferson Street. During the drug deal two suspects attempted to rob Norris and a female companion.  Norris was shot in the upper torso as the incident unfolded.

Officers were able to identify both suspects as Marcus Sykes and twenty-one-year-old Jonathan Wilder through cooperating individual(s) and forensic evidence located at the scene. On November 27^th, 2015 acting on a tip the Officers with the Waterloo Police Department's VCAT Unit arrested Jonathan Wilder at his residence of 1126 Leavitt Street on several outstanding warrants including robbery in the 1^st degree, going armed with intent and felon in possession of a firearm.

Sgt. Matt McGeough