Authorities Seek Suspect in Convenience Store Armed Robbery
Surveillance video shows the robbery suspect.
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Moore County Sheriff’s investigators are searching for a suspect who robbed a local convenience store and assaulted the clerk over the weekend.
A black male wearing a blue and white bandanna over his face entered the Mac’s Food Store at 735 Sand Pit Road about 9 p.m. Saturday, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded he open the safe, according to the incident report from the Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect then came behind the counter and demanded again that the clerk open the safe. When the clerk told the suspect he couldn’t open the safe, the man fired a shot that struck cabinets and the store’s computer, according to the report.
The suspect then ordered the clerk to open the register, striking him in the left side of the head with the handgun.
The clerk, who suffered a minor cut behind his left ear, opened the register and gave the suspect the money.
The suspect, who is described in the report as 6-feet tall and 200 pounds, left the store and then the clerk locked the store and pressed the alarm.
Surveillance video shows a black male wearing a red ball cap, possibly with the logo of the Anaheim Angels baseball team. He had a blue and white bandanna across his face and gloves on his hands. He was wearing a white T-shirt, dark, long shorts and black and white tennis shoes.
Video shows he came from across Roseland Road on the south side of the store. He left in the same direction.
Contact Tom Embrey at tembrey@thepilot.com.
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fugitiveguy 1 year, 1 month ago
I am glad the clerk was not seriously hurt or worse. Undoubtedly a terrifying ordeal none the less. I think MC LEO will solve this one in short fashion.
Proccw 1 year, 1 month ago
Lets get a picture from the store video posted ASAP so maybe someone will recognize him and get this garbage off the street!!
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
Discriptions seem to all have the same look anymore,Black man with a scarf or hoodie covering their face, one composite sketch just about has been summing them up for everyone of one these robberies here lately
AFCHIEF 1 year, 1 month ago
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debsalomon 1 year, 1 month ago
Oh dear. This is sad. My March 28 opinion piece defending hoodies mentioned what thugs might use next to hide their faces. Bandanas were on the list. I hope the perp isn't a Pilot reader.
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
AFCHIEF 12 minutes ago Another Obama son in action
Nope, nothing racist there, no sirree.
AFCHIEF 1 year, 1 month ago
DR, Not racist once again you do not no me personally.
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
Sure, Mr. Sledz. The fact that you feel the need to post "another Obama son" in reference to any young black man who gets in trouble means nothing. Everyone "nos" that.
You don't "no" me, either, but it never stops you, does it?
AFCHIEF 1 year, 1 month ago
DR, you fearless leader Obama is the one who keeps bringing up the Race Card.
Guess you forgot about the Cambridge Police incident where he stated the "Cambridge police acted stupidly", becuase a black man was put in cuffs.
Then he states that if he had a son he'd be like Travyon Martin. Who turns out to be a punk trouble maker. Oh wait, once again skin color, black.
Now tell me is Obama being a racist. I don't see him defending any OTHER NATIONALITY.
Yea my bad no instead of know, call the english dept
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
Oh wait, once again skin color, black.
Keep making my point for me. It saves me work.
AFCHIEF 1 year, 1 month ago
DR, Ignore the facts. The liberals ALWAYS bring up the race card when it is convienent to them politically.
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
Whereas you bring it up out of pure reflex.
weedsie21 1 year, 1 month ago
For those interested, I have found that the Aberdeen Times page seems to carry more info on certain news articles. They have a photo from the surveillance camera on their page.
http://www.aberdeentimes.com/
I am glad that the gentleman that works in the store is ok. My husband was thinking about applying here a few months ago, I am glad for our sake and the sake of our 3 month old son that he followed his instinct and decided not to apply there.
annettespal 1 year, 1 month ago
Why is it the Aberdeentimes.com is up on stuff quicker than the Pilot? I'm going to have to start reading that website first from now on!
herecomesthescience 1 year, 1 month ago
Get Nixle as well, the pilot's breaking news is typically just a copy/paste from a Nixle report. Aberdeen Times is great for actual news and sending somebody out for photos while it is happening.
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
Where is Obama's uncle, from the discription it could very well be him'I know he is still in this country illegally but his nephew may have already found some type of government job for him,everyones a suspect that fits that discription so that should narrow it down to just a several million.
TooHot 1 year, 1 month ago
How much cash did this guy get from the register? $100 - 200 ? Is that payoff worth the potential felony conviction and jail time? Wow. Not that any violent felony is worth the potential payoff. But what's wrong with these guys doing these crimes? Gotta be crack or meth.
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
Last seen running across to Roseland Road while holding a bag of skittles,a can if ice tea in one hand and in the other a mac 9,neighbors had no reason to suspect anything since he looked innocent enough with those skittles,I mean who would think bad of anyone that loves skittles.
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
cantstandya 6 hours, 58 minutes ago
I'm done with this site and they are done with me,
cantstandya 31 minutes ago
Last seen running across to Roseland Road, etc.
Annnnd...he's back.
Hilarious.
Here, canstandya: use this to generate your next "goodbye cruel blog" post.
http://margalite.webatu.com/goodbye.html
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
DR, I see you have ventured out on your own without your sidekick justiceforall,they are probably so tired from todays ramblings on the rally for that little hoodlum that they have not the strength to make it over to this site,had to leave there today as it was turning into a bunch of psycho rabble babble,much like this will turn into soon,this story will get a few hit's but since they have not given the race of the poor guy that got smacked in the head and probably would never do that since it would have to read"Blackman smacks unarmed storeclerk in the head with pistol" I mean how would that sound,and for sure will not rate a rally in Southern PInes,I mean really the guy was probably white but I don't know for sure since the pilot is being evasive on that.
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
DR I came to the conclusion that I might as well stay in the gutter with the rest of you,if I don't there will be a shortage of us white supremacy members and I just can't abandon my people,I admit I have become addicted to ridicule and dimeaning remarks that you and your posse supply in great quantities,why should you and your non ethnic friends have all the fun,but I did leave the site I relieved myself of and was quite surprised this free press organization allowed me to stay,proving we still have freedom of speech.
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
Oh, I'm glad you're here. You make it so much harder for your fellow conservatives to deny that it's all about racism. You're really doing the cause of liberalism a great service here by appearing without the mask, so to speak.
But I think they'd probably have this to say:
Dan Hicks and his Hot licks-How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away by fjgold
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
DR, By the way if you advocate for my use of this site to be terminated I'm sure with all your political pull in this area they would grant your request,you have a habit of being the legal guru in these parts,ambulance chaser,disability lawyer,social service provider and welfare legal assistance for the oppressed,and forclosure negotiator,a real minority trailer park lawyer is what I have been told,now I can't honestly say that I could verify any of those accusations but just like everything else that is posted on this site it could all be just a bunch of people telling tales so I won't dwell on rumors,but you keep those little dimeaning remarks coming I'll be watching.
JER 1 year, 1 month ago
The right wingnut nation is doing a big favor for all the unaffiliated voters in Moore County. A black man holds up a convenience store and it becomes all about Obama. How could anyone with an IQ over 10 read this garbage and decide to vote for the candidates supported by these lunatics?
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
Sorry to deny you the victim-hood you so devoutly wish for, cantstandya, but I've already said I want you to stay here as a perfect examplar of the Right: racist, mean-spirited, petty, illiterate, incoherent, and so weak-willed that you admit you're "helpless" when people "push your buttons."
No, do stay. If anyone pulls the plug on you, it won't be at my behest.You're our poster child.
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
DR, Once again to clarify that this area is one that has a great number of racial radicals research the number of gated golf club communities,all within a couple miles of one another and check the ethnic population of these clubs,the real power players,the real money men and women,they all claim to march and support racial equality but heavens forbid one of color being a memebr of their country club,I may be a bit of a racist but I make no pretense of being anything other than that,and I actually exspect the Blacks to have similiar feelings towards myself but all these White golf resort members who pretend to be so liberal would no more vote a person of the Black race into their club than the man in the moon,they all have a token membership but thats for appearance sake only so if all of you racist bashers want to slam anyone start on your local resorts and gated clubs,not someone like me who lives in the woods and minds my own business,or are you and yours in fear of the upper class who really hide behind those fences and gates.
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
Yeah, the local country clubs and gated communities are real hotbeds of liberalism and "racial radicals".
Keep the crazy coming, cantstandya.
dustyrhoades 1 year, 1 month ago
Well, I'd love to stay here and keep poking the crazy guy with a stick to see what lunatic right wing nonsense he'll blurt out next, but it's a big day tomorrow, and I could use some shut-eye.
I'll be back to see what's dribbled out of cantunderstandya's brain when I can.
JustThinking 1 year, 1 month ago
dr, people are here to comment on the topic, right? All you choose to do is criticize and ridicule. Will you please just go away?! It's so annoying, but typical. cantstandya, don't let him drive you away, stand firm and encourage other like minded friends to join in. Oh yeah, the topic?....... See Mr. Pilot, see what he (dr) does here.
Anyway, people shouldn't take things that do not belong to them. People that do that should have to pay a serious consequence. Right? Prison with serious community service while being held at gun point would be good. In public for all to see! That is of course, he is found guilty. No pleas, just consequence. People shouldn't steal.
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
DR, I am everything and more of what you have called me and have probably many more years of dealin with the Blacks than yourself,again I say probably,I have listened to their whining,watched them march,burn down their own neighborhoods,sell drugs to their own and then blame the white man for their inability to progress,move into once safe areas turn them into streets that are battle zones after dark,you see I grew up in a city that Moore county would be considered a suburb,we had government housing projects that the police would not enter after dark, they were for the most part government fed,housed and kept fed,what we have here are a handful of disenchanted who have organized a few to get media coverage as they always do and it always is the White mans fault,as I said before I was not born a racist,it came with age and knowledge,what you call illiterate is really street experience,something you will not gain from living in this little oasis in Moore county
cantstandya 1 year, 1 month ago
JustThinking, Just call the Pilot and have me removed,that's all you have to do,because I will not stop argueing for my race,and when they do remove me I in turn will be afforded the opportunity to expose this site for which it is a bunch of hypcrits who live in a bubble and constant fear of upsetting the Black race,there are enough comments made on here that are so bias that even Rev Barber would have to admit that I am being crucified by my own for voicing my opinions,heck I might even get Al Sharpton and the ACLU to see my side of this,so go ahead call get me silenced I will look forward to the arguements it will bring.
AFCHIEF 1 year, 1 month ago
@JER A black man holds up a convenience store and it becomes all about Obama.
Its all about Obama because he sticks his nose into anything racial for his political gain.
For example, the Cambridge Police incident and now he spouts off about if he had a son he would be like Travyon Martin.
So PLEASE quit playing the usual RACE card.
AFCHIEF 1 year, 1 month ago
I guess Bill Cosby is also a racist
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm
JohnANagy 1 year, 1 month ago
I'm freezing the comment thread yet again here because of yet another spiral into a back and forth over race. Folks, crime stories are what they are, and nothing more. Everyone will just have to pick up their fight and take it to another thread.