Overnight, Danville police are reporting two armed robberies of convenience stores. That also reminded me of one other attempted robbery that happened last year in the same area, so let’s look at what happened last night and then we’ll get a reminder of what happened last year…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let’s start with what happened overnight. Here’s the official statement from the Danville police department…<\/p>\n
\nOn 12-28-12 at approximately 10:34pm, officers responded to the Fas Mart, 565 Piney Forest Road, in reference to an armed robbery. The clerk reported that a black male entered the store, pointed a handgun at her and demanded the money. After giving the suspect money from the cash register, he fled the business on foot. He is described as approximately 5\u20193\u201d tall wearing a brown hoodie, black leather jacket, gloves and had a dark bandanna over his face. During the robbery, a second suspect described as a dark skinned black male approximately 6\u201900\u201d tall wearing a black hoodie, gloves, dark jeans with a white bandanna covering his face, held the door to the business open and acted as a look-out while the robbery was occurring. No shots were fired and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
On 12-28-12 at approximately 11:10pm, officers responded to the Wilco store, 1264 South Boston Road, in reference to another armed robbery. Employees reported that a light skinned black male wearing a black hoodie and a red bandanna around his face entered the business, pointed a handgun at them and demanded the money. A second suspect described as a dark skinned black male held the door open and acted as a look-out while the robbery was occurring. After getting the money from the cash register, both suspects fled the scene on foot. No shots were fired and no injuries were reported. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact Danville Crimestoppers at (434) 793-0000, or via our crime tips line on your computer at crimetips@ci.danville.va.us. Information given will remain confidential. Citizens who contact Crimestoppers by telephone may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.00. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So that happened. Special thanks for the first robbery has to go to the management of FasMart for only having one clerk working in a store on a Friday night. The Wilco store did have two people working and it didn’t stop the bad guys from robbing that, but only having one clerk is a recipe for a disaster. Let’s hope that the PD can clear these robberies quickly.<\/p>\n
Now let’s hop in the Time Machine and head back to July 2011. Here’s the statement from the Danville police department…<\/p>\n
At 1131 S. Boston Rd, the Airport Pure convenience store, the clerk advised at approximately 11:30pm, a Black Male 5\u20198\u201d in his 20\u2019s wearing a black hat, red bandana over his face, white shirt and dark pants holding a silver hand gun entered his store, pointed his weapon at him and demanded money. The clerk drew his own weapon from his waistband and the suspect fled the store. The clerk followed as the suspect went around the building. The suspect fired a shot at the clerk and the clerk fired several shots into the air. The area was secured and a bloodhound attempted a track with negative results. No one was injured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The previous day, a clerk was shot in a 4PM robbery at the Joy Food Store on Riverside Drive (about 2 miles from the Airport Pure store) so tensions were already high. The shooting and these robberies remain unsolved.<\/p>\n
Somebody knows something about last night’s robberies and the ones back in July 2011. It’s time for that somebody to call CrimeStoppers and get people put in jail for these crimes. Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overnight, Danville police are reporting two armed robberies of convenience stores. That also reminded me of one other attempted robbery that happened last year in the same area, so let’s look at what happened last night and then we’ll get a reminder of what happened last year…<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,20,22,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-newscentral","category-opinioncentral","category-time-machine","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-1ZS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4275,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/18\/danville-police-report-armed-robbery\/","url_meta":{"origin":7680,"position":0},"title":"Danville Police report armed robbery","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"And this was a bold one during daylight hours... From the Danville Police Department... Yesterday (Wednesday) at approximately 3:42PM, Danville Police responded to the 500 block of Arnett Boulevard for a reported robbery. An employee of the Lambo clothing store reported that a man with a bandana covering the lower\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Danville"","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5829,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/16\/danville-police-solve-robbery-within-a-few-hours\/","url_meta":{"origin":7680,"position":1},"title":"Danville police solve robbery within a few hours","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Danville's police department gets it done again. From our friends at the Danville Police Department... At approximately 2:02PM, today Danville Police responded to a reported robbery at the Nature\u2019s Essentials store at 107 Mall Drive. The clerk at the store reported that a male subject came in to the store,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Danville"","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4397,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/27\/armed-robbery-near-danvilles-woodside-village\/","url_meta":{"origin":7680,"position":2},"title":"Armed robbery near Danville’s Woodside Village","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We could use that headline quite often, you know. From a Danville Police Dept. press release... On 06-27-09 at approximately 10:54AM, Officers responded to the 1300 block of Piney Forest Road for shots fired. A 51-year-old male reported to Officers that a male approached him pointed a handgun at him\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Danville"","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7692,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/12\/breaking-armed-robbery-at-danville-pizza-hut-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":7680,"position":3},"title":"BREAKING: Armed Robbery at Danville Pizza Hut tonight","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"January 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Another restaurant robbery in the Danville area... Here's the statement from the Danville police department... Danville Police responded to a call of a robbery at the Pizza Hut Restaurant located at 691 West Main Street tonight. At 10:30 PM, Danville Police responded to a reported robbery at Pizza Hut on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Breaking News"","block_context":{"text":"Breaking News","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/newscentral\/breaking-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17726,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/26\/opinioncentral-a-tale-of-two-shootings\/","url_meta":{"origin":7680,"position":4},"title":"OpinionCentral: A Tale Of Two Shootings","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This OpinionCentral has a good chance of making you feel uncomfortable. That means I'm doing my job. Let's go back to the night of February 1st, 2016 and look at the Danville Police Department's media release... Two men were shot this evening as the result of an attempted robbery. At\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "OpinionCentral"","block_context":{"text":"OpinionCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/opinioncentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/6dVZX4b.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4181,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/10\/danville-armed-robbery-live-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":7680,"position":5},"title":"Danville armed robbery – LIVE! update","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Danville police are reporting an armed robbery at the Pit Stop Mart on Piney Forest Rd. late Tuesday night. No one was injured.","rel":"","context":"In "Mobile"","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}