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Youngstown police seeking robbers who stole from 2 city businesses
No arrests have been made in either robbery.
YOUNGSTOWN — City police are looking for the individuals responsible for robbing two city businesses.
Both robberies took place Monday afternoon — one on the South Side and the other on the West Side.
According to police, a man walked up to the counter of the Dollar General Store at 3305 Mahoning Ave. just after 1:30 p.m. and handed the clerk a package of toothpaste as if to make a purchase. When the clerk opened the cash drawer to collect the man’s money, he reached over the counter, shoved the clerk to the side and grabbed the cash from the register.
Employees chased the thief to a car parked on the side of the store. The thief jumped into the car and fled down South Dunlap Avenue.
Police took the toothpaste container as evidence but have not located the thief.
A few hours later, police were called to the 600 block of West Ravenwood for the robbery and carjacking of a 21-year-old restaurant- delivery driver.
The delivery driver for China Star Restaurant on Market Street was making a delivery to a home in the 600 block of West Ravenwood just before 6 p.m. when he was approached by a teen boy wearing a red ball cap and red shirt and carrying a gun. The armed teen told the man to move over, then got behind the wheel of the delivery driver’s car and drove several blocks.
Reports say the armed man eventually ordered the delivery driver out of his car and pulled off with the car, food and money inside the vehicle. The owners of the store came to pick up the driver, who does not speak fluent English, from the area in which he was ordered out of the car.
Police recovered the car in the 600 block of West Ravenwood, but the money and food were missing.
No arrests have been made.
jgoodwin@vindy.com