Crime & Safety
Teen Charged As Adult in Grocery Store Armed Robbery
A suspect on Feb. 25 walked into Five Forks Grocery, allegedly pointed a gun at the store clerk and demanded cigarettes.
The Bartow County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a teenager in the armed robbery of a grocery store last week in Kingston.
A 15-year-old juvenile has been charged as an adult with armed robbery with a firearm and aggravated assault with a firearm in the incident, which occurred before daybreak Feb. 25.
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Deputies with the agency were dispatched to an armed robbery call around 5:54 a.m. to Five Forks Grocery at 10 Lowery Road.
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Sheriff Clark Millsap said the clerk told deputies a man wearing an orange Nike sweatshirt, sunglasses and a gray bandanna covering his face came into the store, allegedly pointed a handgun at her and “requested” two cartons of Marlboro Special Blend Black Menthol and two cartons of Marlboro Light 100’s.
The clerk was able to activate the store’s panic alarm and provided the male subject with the cartons of cigarettes. The suspect left the store on foot and the store clerk was not injured, the sheriff’s office said.
The teenager was detained and transported to the Rome Youth Detention Center where he is awaiting a Bartow County Superior Court hearing.
Photo credit: Bartow County Sheriff’s Office
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