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Police investigate robberies
YOUNGSTOWN
City police are investigating more weekend robberies, including the robbery of another Dollar General convenience store.
Police are still looking into the robberies of two Dollar General stores and breaking and entering of a third store in various parts of the city last week.
According to police, employees at the Dollar General store in the 2000 block of Market Street were preparing to close the store for the evening just before 9 p.m. Friday when a man, described as a black man 5 feet 7 inches, small-framed, wearing a gray sweatshirt, gray sweatpants, red gloves and a black ball cap with a large red or orange emblem came into the store. The man told employees he just had to quickly “get something.”
When the man returned to the cash register, he was carrying a note demanding money and telling the cashier not to make any sudden moves. The note was signed “Satan.”
The cashier put money in a Dollar General bag and then walked with the man to an office because the thief believed a safe was in the office. When the man realized there was no safe in the office, he ran out of the store carrying the bag of money.
Using police dogs, police officers were able to track the man to an abandoned duplex not far from the store. The thief was not found in the house, but police did find some of the clothes he was wearing and a Dollar General bag containing $486.
A Youngstown woman told police she was robbed at gunpoint Sunday then shot at by a man she had been dating for several weeks and one of the man’s friends.
The 30-year-old woman told police she went to a pick up her 18-year-old acquaintance at a house on Hudson just before 4 p.m. They then picked up another man in the 300 block of Hilton Avenue.
The woman said both men pulled out handguns and demanded her money. She handed over her purse containing about $600 and the men got out of the car firing shots at her as she pulled off.
Police returned to the scene and found shell casings in the street that were taken as evidence.