Detectives Seek Men in String of Convenience Store Burglaries

Officers are asking for help identifying several men wanted in a string of convenience store burglaries on Augusta Road and Sunset Boulevard. 

Lexington County Sheriff's Department and Lexington Police Department detectives are looking for as many as five men who committed six robberies at five 24-hour convenience stores between May 23 and July 12, according to the sheriff's department.
 
Between two and five men, all of whom are black, robbed the convenience stores between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m., according to the sheriff's department. In each robbery, the men covered their faces with cloths or masks. 

Detectives say the men ran in the stores, forced clerks to open cash registers and stole an undetermined amount of money, tobacco products and beer before driving off.

Detectives also are asking for help finding two motor vehicles that might be connected to the convenience store robberies or might have been driven by someone who witnessed the robberies. 

One vehicle is a light colored, four-door sedan, possibly a Toyota sedan or Chevrolet sedan, according to the sheriff's department. The sedan has tinted windows, and there are no hubcaps on the passenger’s side of the vehicle.

The second vehicle is a burgundy or red four-door sedan, possibly a Honda Civic or Buick Century, detectives say. The vehicle’s passenger’s side mirror is damaged.

The robberies happened at the following locations: 

• a Pitt Stop convenience store at 3809 Sunset Boulevard on May 23 and May 28
• a Hess Express convenience store at 3006 Augusta Road on June 20
• a Circle K convenience store at 2308 Augusta Road on June 23
• a Kangaroo Express convenience store at 3950 Augusta Road on July 8
• a Murphy Express convenience store at 4873 Augusta Road on July 12