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Convenience store armed robbery brings yearly total to 17
Clyde's Market latest victim
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A Statesboro convenience store clerk was robbed at gunpoint Saturday, bringing the number of armed robberies in Statesboro this year to 17. By the end of June, there had been 14 armed robberies with guns and two armed robberies with knives, as well as nine “strong-arm” robberies within the city limits, said Statesboro police Sgt. Jake Saxon. A man with his face and arms covered walked into Clyde’s Market on Fair Road around 3:50 a.m. Saturday, “appeared to have a gun” and robbed the clerk of an undisclosed amount of cash before leaving, he said.
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