06/17/2022
A Mississippi man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly robbed four people at gunpoint in the Twin Cities metro who’d agreed to buy his gaming console.
Thailand Tyree Survillion, 21, of Lambert, Miss., is charged with three counts of first-degree aggravated robbery, one count of attempted first-degree aggravated robbery and three counts of threats of violence.
Survillion is accused of setting up multiple meetings last month to sell his PlayStation 5 (PS5) and then robbing the victims when they showed up to buy the console from him.
The first incident happened on May 1, when C**n Rapids police were called to an apartment complex. A victim then said he’d used Facebook Messenger to buy a PS5 from “Ty Keith” for $550.
According to the complaint, the victim showed up to the apartment and met with the seller, later identified as Survillion, who then pulled out a gun and demanded his money or said he’d kill the victim and his stepmother. They were able to get away safely.
Then, on May 4, a C**n Rapids detective responded to a similar report, with the victim saying he’d agreed to pay “Ty Keith” $700 for the PS5 but was robbed at gunpoint when he showed up.
On May 14 and May 28, officers responded to an apartment on Wilson Avenue, near McKnight Road North, in St. Paul.
A 33-year-old woman told police she and her son met a man in the apartment complex’s parking lot after responding to his Facebook Marketplace advertisement about the PS5. She says the man wanted the money and didn’t have the console so she refused, wanting to see the console first. The man then asked them to come to his apartment.
The complaint states that when they went to the apartment, Survillion pulled out a gun, pushed the woman against a wall and demanded the money, and the other man then took her wallet and keys before fleeing.
