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Staff reports 2:02 PM Wednesday, September 23, 2009

DAYTON — Dayton police responded to two armed robberies committed at gunpoint on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at Save-A-Lot, 2152 N. Gettysburg Ave., and Family Dollar, 3222 Salem Ave.

Nobody was injured in either incident, according to police reports.

In the first robbery, a male entering the Save-A-Lot grocery laid a Snickers bar on a conveyor belt, ostensibly to pay for it. He then pointed what appeared to be a small caliber revolver at the clerk and said she had three seconds to open the cash drawer or he would kill her. He then began counting down.

The clerk opened the cash drawer and the man grabbed money and pulled out the drawer, causing it to fall to the ground. The man fled out the door and turned left, or south. Police, called to the scene about 8:26 a.m., found a Snickers bar on the ground that the suspect had apparently been holding.

The suspect, believed to be a 19-year-old, light-skinned black man with braids, was wearing a large black hoodie and black jean shorts. On the back of the hoodie is a large blue hand with the letter “M” in the palm.

In the second robbery, reported at 7:30 p.m., a man standing behind a customer for whom a clerk was making change, pulled out a gun, stuck it to the clerk’s head, and ran behind the counter. The man then went through the cash drawer and took about $80. He fled south on Salem Avenue. Police recovered $8 lying outside the store.

The suspect, believed to to be a man stands 6-feet-1-inch, was wearing a blue-gray hoodie, black shorts and surgical gloves.

Both robberies were recorded on videotape.

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