Crime & Safety

Tucker Store Robbed Three Times This Week

Burglars hit Dollar General twice on Monday night, then an armed robbery occurred on Tuesday.

A store in Tucker was targeted by criminals three times this week, leaving a shaken staff but no injuries.

A police report states two unknown males entered Dollar General on Hugh Howell Road on Monday, May 13, at approximately 8 p.m., and stole merchandise from a stock room by wheeling it out the back door on a roll trailer. They returned at 3:30 a.m. and did it again, and all of it was captured on video. There was no forced entry, police said.

On Tuesday afternoon, a man entered the store and put a black semi-automatic handgun to the head of a cashier. "Open the drawer, give me the money, open the drawer," he told the cashier, according to the incident report.

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The cashier was unable to open the drawer because she had no key. The suspect then approached the manager who was trying to call police. "The suspect pointed the gun at him and yelled for him to put the phone down," the report states, and the manager was forced to open the register.

The suspect took approximately $200 and fled the scene. Again, video footage was made available to investigators. A witness told police she saw the suspect run toward the end of the shopping plaza and "possibly left in a white vehicle."Β 

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Shopper Denise Pounds told Patch: "I am a frequent customer and the staff are all pretty shaken up. The manager said it is the same guy who robbed other Dollar Generals in DeKalb. The employees are understandably upset."


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