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Man attempts to rob store with a bullet
I don’t suppose it happens often — a robber threatens a cashier not with a gun or a knife or a baseball bat.
Rather the fellow who entered a Family Dollar Store in Dayton on Tuesday threatened the cashier with a bullet — a single .38 caliber round he pulled from his pocket.
The 59-year-old man asked the cashier for all the money in the cash register. Unfazed by the threatening bullet, she declined, and he left the store empty-handed. A nearby private security guard at the Westown Shopping Center — alerted by the cashier — quickly ran the man to ground as bystanders called police.
The cashier told officers the man approached her register softly mumbling. She asked him several times if she could help. The man finally spoke loud of enough for her to hear that he wanted money and “this was a robbery,” according to the police report.
It was then the man pulled the bullet out of his jacket pocket. The cashier said she then told him she could not open the register without her manager. The man walked out the door.
Officers noted the strong odor of alcohol coming from the man.
Verlin Alsept was taken to the Montgomery County Jail. Prosecutors approved a felony robbery charge on Wednesday.
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