Robbery Suspect Caught Counting Cash, Cops Say

A 51-year-old Tampa man faces robbery charges after police say he was caught counting the money from a Thursday afternoon heist.

The incident unfolded around 3:16 p.m. at the Family Dollar store, 4002 50th St. Police say a man walked into the store at that time, threatened to shoot employees and demanded money.

The man “implied that he had a weapon, but none was seen,” police noted in an email to media.

Store employees gave the man cash out of the register and watched him drive away in a 2001 green GMC truck with a dealer tag.

A short time later, officers spotted a vehicle matching the description pulled over in the 3100 block of East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. When officers approached the vehicle, they noticed the man inside matched the suspect description. They also couldn’t help but notice the man was in the process of counting cash, the email said.

Witnesses positively identified the man in the truck as the person who robbed the store.

Noble Rogers was subsequently arrested and transported to the Hillsborough County Jail.

Rogers was charged with armed robbery and was being held at the Hillsborough County Jail Thursday evening without bond. Rogers was arrested on robbery charges back in 1999, jail records indicate. He was sent to state prison on those charges and for violation of probation. Rogers was released from state prison in October 2014.

Booking photo courtesy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office

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