Sheriff's Police Investigating Armed Robbery of Tobacco Store

Will County Sheriff’s police are investigating an armed robbery in which four suspects Thursday tied up a tobacco store owner and made off with a variety of goods from the store.

Two suspects described as black males entered Tobacco Town, 7954 Lincoln Highway in Frankfort Township, Thursday around 9:30 p.m. One man requested a carton of cigarettes and then flashed a revolver, telling the owner, “Don’t you (expletive) move.”

A second suspect then walked behind the counter and demanded the owner open the register. Two more suspects—one black male and one white male—then came into the store, threw the owner to the ground and moved him into the bathroom, where they bound his hands behind his back with a zip tie. The clerk then waited until the store fell silent, before calling police.

A preliminary list of products that were stolen include cash, a surveillance camera receiver, an IPad, various brands and quantities of cigarette cartons, hookahs, E-cigarettes, E-cigarette liquid flavors, Haze tobacco and Starbuzz tobacco.

The subjects are believed to have been driving a dark green work van with double doors on the rear of the vehicle. No other customers were inside the store at the time of the robbery.

Sheriff’s detectives were called to the scene and are actively investigating the incident.