Jailed W.Va. Man Charged in Hillsboro Robbery

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A West Virginia man apprehended last week in Harper’s Ferry faces charges stemming from the Jan. 10 robbery of a small grocery store in Hillsboro.

Dale E. Mainhart, 33, is currently being held in the Eastern Regional Jail in Martinsburg, W.Va., on a $100,000 bond and a fugitive of justice detainer, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

Loudoun police detectives, working with police in Jefferson County, W.Va., connected Mainhart to the Jan. 10 robbery at the Hill Tom Market in Hillsboro, the Loudoun sheriff’s office said. Hillsboro is a small town northwest of Leesburg, near the Blue Ridge Mountains and the West Virginia state line.

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Mainhart was arrested last week on charges related to a Jan. 26 armed robbery at a convenience store in Jefferson County, according to media reports.

He is facing charges in the Hillsboro incident of robbery, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in Loudoun County.