Suspects "Bump and Rob" Store Clerk in Bartow County

CARTERSVILLE, GA -- A convenience store employee in Bartow County was the victim of a relatively new tactics perpetrators are using to commit crimes.

Sheriff's deputies were dispatched around 9:50 p.m. Dec. 4 to S.R. 113 just east of Brown Farm Road near Cartersville. Officers met with the victim, who said he was robbed at gunpoint by two men who emerged from a vehicle that rear-ended his car.

Known as "bump and rob," these incidents involve the perpetrators purposefully running into the vehicles of their targeted victims. Once the motorist steps out to exchange information with the driver, the suspect or suspects rob the victim of his or her's possessions.

One such incident was reported in February 2015 in Alpharetta.

According to an incident report released by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office, the victim said he works at JB Foodmart on Cedartown Highway in Rockmart.

He was traveling to the store owner's home towards Cartersville when he "slowed to a stop for another vehicle in front of him that was making a left turn onto Brown Farm Road," the incident report states.

At that moment, a black four-door Honda sedan "lightly bumped" his Toyota sedan from behind. The motorist pulled over onto the shoulder and got out to speak with the driver.

According to the report, the victim said he was approached by two masked men carrying semi-automatic handguns. One man told the store clerk to place his hands on his head and hand over the money, the report notes.

The victim offered the suspects his wallet, and told the two men he did not have anything else on him at the time.

"The suspect then said that they knew he had just left the store and they knew he had a cash drop with him," the report states.

The clerk gave the suspects lottery cash that totaled $4,100 to $4,200, the incident report reads.

The suspects rifled through the victim's car and went through his pockets before driving away towards Polk County.

The victim told police he did not see anything or anyone unusual outside the store before he left the premises. Anyone with information is asked to call the Bartow County Sheriff's Office at 770-382-5050.

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