The man told a woman she needed to pay him $8,500 to secure her grandson's release from jail, police said. He asked for more after she paid.

The back-to-back robberies happened Jan. 5 and 6, at a 7-Eleven and later, the Moncrief Bail Bonds office in Cocoa.

The Georgia Senate voted in favor of a bill allowing bail bonds business owners to hold local office. It is the first bill to pass a chamber this year.

Two more suspects — including the sister of a man arrested in the case last month — were jailed after agents connected them to the failed robbery of a bail bonds company and an armed heist ...