POLICE REPORTS Investigations continue in aggravated robberies
A clerk was made to wait on customers while a robber kept a gun pointed at her.
GIRARD -- Police are investigating two unrelated aggravated robberies from the weekend.
The first took place around 10:30 p.m. Saturday outside an apartment complex in the 200 block of Churchill Road. According to reports, a resident returned home after closing his business for the night and was assaulted by three men who were wearing masks and carrying sticks.
The resident told police the men took him just inside the apartment building and beat him about the face and body before taking $1,500 and a handgun, then getting into a dark vehicle and fleeing south on Washington Street.
Police did recover a small baseball bat at the scene.
Convenience store
The second robbery occurred at 11:08 p.m. Sunday, after police responded to an alarm at the Expresso Market on East Liberty Street. A female clerk told officers that after she had helped a customer at the drive-through window, a man approached the window, pointed a gun at her and then crawled through the window to get inside.
The man -- with a thin build and wearing black jeans, a black hooded sweat shirt and a red knit cap with the eyes cut out over his face -- ordered the clerk to the back of the store. He was looking for a back door but did not find one.
The clerk said the man forced her to wait on customers through the window while he kept the gun pointed at her, then took an undetermined amount of cash from the register and tried to remove a security tape before fleeing the business on foot, heading east on East Liberty Street.
Anyone with information on either robbery is asked to call the Girard Police Department.