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2 men charged with 2 convenience store robberies
Police investigating possible connection to other recent holdups
SCOTT JACKIE RAYKENYA
Jackie Raykenya Scott
"Good police work" led to the arrest of two armed robbery suspects after a convenience store robbery early Wednesday. The suspects were also charged in another convenience store armed robbery that occurred Sunday.Statesboro Public Safety Director Wendell Turner and Bulloch County Sheriff Lynn Anderson agreed Wednesday that teamwork by their agencies helped nab the suspects minutes after they held a clerk at gunpoint around 12:45 a.m. at the Gate station on South Main Street.The clerks and witnesses told officers "two masked black males came into the store, brandished handguns and demanded the money from the cash registers," Turner said. The suspects took an undisclosed amount of currency from the business and fled the scene on foot.After the clerk reported the robbery and Statesboro police responded, officers spotted a car matching the description of one used in similar armed robberies outside the city limits, Turner said."Officers were already familiar with a description of suspects and a vehicle that committed previous armed robberies in the county after they received a (lookout alert) from the Bulloch County Sheriff's Department," he said.
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