The individual who robbed and sexually battered a clerk at a Pearl River-area convenience store has been identified and is in custody in Mississippi.
50 YO David Rester of Vidalia was incarcerated in Harrison County, where he is being held on charges in connection with a bank robbery which occurred Friday in Waveland.
Rester is also wanted in connection with a murder, which occurred Thursday, March 3, in Washington Parish.
Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Major Crime Unit began working with detectives with the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office after they developed information that led them to believe the individual who robbed and battered a clerk at a Pearl River-area convenience store on February 27 was the same individual who murdered the Bogalusa-area bar owner.
Working together, detectives with both agencies were able to identify that individual as Rester.
Detectives learned that Rester was taken into custody in Harrison County Friday morning following a pursuit. He was interviewed and confessed to both murdering and robbing the Washington Parish bar owner as well as robbing and battering the Pearl River-area convenience store clerk.
In addition to the charges he faces in Mississippi and Washington Parish, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office has obtained warrants for Rester’s arrest for armed robbery, aggravated second-degree battery and felony sexual battery.
