Robbery charges were filed Thursday against two men suspected in Wednesday’s holdup of the Hampton Inn.

Gwyndell B. DeClerck, 33, Kansas City, Mo., was charged with aggravated robbery and obstruction of justice for resisting arrest.

Andrew L. Fluker, 35, Topeka, was charged with aiding and abetting aggravated robbery, fleeing and attempting to elude police and driving with a suspended license.

During a hearing Thursday in Douglas County District Court, Judge Robert Fairchild set bond for each suspect at $250,000.

Lawrence and Baldwin Police also are trying to determine if the suspects may be connected to armed robberies at two Baldwin businesses.

“We think it’s a good possibility and we’re looking at it,” Baldwin Police Sgt. Colleen Larson said.

May 3, a man with a pistol robbed Pizza Hut, 130 Ames, Baldwin. April 27, a gunman robbed J’s Video, 814 High, also in Baldwin.

Police arrested DeClerck and Fluker Wednesday afternoon, minutes after the hotel at 2300 W. Sixth St. was robbed at gunpoint.

Shortly before 4 p.m., a man armed with a pistol and with his face covered by some type of cloth confronted two women clerks at the hotel’s front desk and demanded money, Lawrence Police said.

Police received a 911 call about the robbery, and descriptions of the suspect and his car were broadcast to officers.

Two detectives in an unmarked car saw the vehicle a white Mercury sedan heading westbound at Sixth Street and Kasold Drive and attempted to stop it.

Police chased the car to a cul-de-sac in the 3800 block of Pinnacle Circle. The driver of the suspects’ car turned his vehicle around and made several attempts to get around the police car. Police then rammed the suspects’ car and pinned it against a curb.

“The detectives did this maneuver at great personal risk, in an effort to stop armed suspects in a residential neighborhood,” Police Lt. Dan Affalter said.

Fluker was arrested at the crash scene. DeClerck allegedly ran west about a block and was caught by police in the Hy-Vee Food Store parking lot, 4000 W. Sixth St.

An undisclosed sum of money identified as being from the Hampton Inn was allegedly found in the possession of DeClerck, police said. Police also recovered two pistols in the 500 block of Monterey Way they think belonged to the suspects.

Police also learned Fluker is wanted in Florida for forgery and in Mississippi for parole violation. There are warrants for his arrest from Shawnee County as well, but information about those warrants was not available late Thursday.

DeClerck and Fluker will appear in court again at 2 p.m. Tuesday.