Police probe Waynesburg store robbery
State police are searching for a man suspected in an armed holdup at a Waynesburg convenience store early Monday morning. A white man with a muscular build and brandishing a handgun entered the 7-Eleven on East High Street in Waynesburg and demanded money at 1:19 a.m., police said.
Trooper David Davison said the man shouted several orders at store clerk Deanese S. LeMasters of Waynesburg before retrieving an undisclosed amount of cash and fleeing the Franklin Township store on foot.
Davison said police suspect the man then ran to a pickup truck or sport utility vehicle with chrome wheels and fled toward the Waynesburg area.
Davison said the man is between 5 feet 9 inches and 6 feet tall and was wearing a gray skull cap, a gray, long-sleeve shirt, gray scarf, blue jeans and sneakers at the time of the robbery.
Anyone with information regarding the robbery is asked to call Davison at 724-627-6151.
This is the second robbery in the Waynesburg area in the past week. Waynesburg Borough police said the Community Bank, 30 W. Greene St., Waynesburg, was robbed last Thursday around 11:15 a.m.
According to police, an unknown male walked into the bank and showed a note saying that he had a gun to a teller.
He then made verbal threats to the teller and demanded money.
After receiving an undetermined amount of money, the suspect fled the bank and was last seen fleeing south on foot onto South Washington Street.
The suspect was described as white or possibly Hispanic, in his early 30s to 40s. He was wearing a burnt orange plaid shirt and baggy, tan Khaki pants.