State police were dispatched to a Derry Township discount-cigarette store yesterday for the fourth robbery there since January.
According to reports broadcast over a police scanner, troopers were sent to the Choice Cigarette Discount Outlet on Route 217 at 8:35 p.m. to investigate an armed robbery. A dispatcher at the Greensburg barracks last night said he was not authorized to comment on the incident.
The robbery marks the fourth since January at the outlet. Last Sunday, a white male entered the convenience store just after 6 p.m., showed a handgun and demanded that the clerk give him money.
The man, who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, camouflage pants and a bandana over his face, left the store with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to a police report. The female clerk was not injured, police said.
On June 20, two men entered the store, waved a handgun and took money from the clerk. The men then ran along the railroad tracks behind the store and crossed the tracks to Mill Street, where they fled north in a cream-colored Mazda 6, according to police.
Reed B. Moore, 21, of Derry Township was arrested in connection with a robbery of the store in January. Police said Moore and another man robbed the store on Jan. 26, fleeing with $1,863.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Dion R. Ford II, 19, whose address was Dogwood Acres, Derry Township, in connection with the January robbery.
