Masked gunmen rob discount store
28.12.2011, 17:01
Macon police are looking for two gunmen who robbed the Dollar General store at 3824 Pio Nono Ave. at closing time Friday and bound two female clerks with duct tape.
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The gunmen, who were wearing masks and gloves, took the workers to the back of the store before leaving with an undetermined amount of money, said Macon police detective Jim MacDonald.
"It seems like they hid in the back of the store and came up on the girls," MacDonald said. "One of the girls was cleaning and the other was counting the money."
After the gunmen left the building, shortly before 9:30 p.m., the women were able to remove the tape and called police, MacDonald said.
Employee charged in robbery at McDonald's
An employee at a downtown McDonald's was charged Friday with helping another man steal $1,185.10 from a safe late Thursday, police say.
Two employees told police that the man entered from the back door of the restaurant at 770 Pine St. about 11:40 p.m., told them not to move and grabbed the money, exiting through the back door.
However, police determined that one of the two, Christopher Robinson, 23, let the man in the back door, according to a Macon Police Department report. Robinson has been charged with robbery.
The other man involved was described as black male, 20 to 25 years old, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, clean shaven with short hair. He drove away in a four-door black or blue Honda with tinted windows and fins, according to police.
Movie rental workers held up at gunpoint
Two movie rental workers found themselves in a real crime drama Thursday night as a gunman held up the Movie Stop at 4640 Presidential Parkway.
Shortly before 10:30 p.m., a black man about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing approximately 160 pounds, pulled a black handgun from his pants pocket, according to a Macon Police Department incident report.
The gunman, believed to be in his late 20s, pressed the barrel of the gun into one clerk's ribs and grabbed another worker by his shirt and ordered them to open the safe, the report stated.
Because the safe had a time delay, the gunman then demanded money from the cash register then fled with the cash, the report stated.
The robber, who was wearing a black sweatshirt and black sweatpants, left the store and headed toward Mercer University Drive, the report stated.
Teen charged with car theft, kidnapping
A 16-year-old is charged with entering a car while the owner was inside a Napier Avenue convenience store late Thursday and driving away with three children inside.
The youth was charged with robbery by intimidation, according to a Macon Police Department report. He jumped into the running vehicle at the Marathon Station at 3102 Napier Ave. and drove away with the victim's three children, ages 10, 11 and 12 years old. The driver put the children out of the vehicle along Napier Avenue near Macon Avenue.
The vehicle, a gold 2000 Ford Taurus displaying Georgia tag number ASF-1952, has not been recovered, according to police.
The 16-year-old was arrested Friday evening after his family brought him to the detective bureau, according to police.
Four robbed at Mercer
Four people walking on the Mercer University campus early Friday were robbed at gunpoint by two men, according to police.
The four told police they were walking around 12:30 a.m. when the two men came out of nowhere. One pointed a silver pistol at them and told them to throw everything down and get on the ground, according to a Macon police report. Items taken included three cell phones, $20 cash and a pack of cigarettes, according to police.
The men were last seen running toward Coleman Avenue, witnesses told police.
GC&SU names new dean
A new dean has been named to the School of Health Sciences at Georgia College & State University, the college announced Friday.
Sandy Gangstead took office on July 1, and also will serve as a professor of kinesiology.
Gangstead comes to GC&SU from Kennesaw State University, where she spent three years as chair and professor in the department of health, physical education and sport science, according to a news release.