Is there any significance that lately all the robbery suspects have been dressed in black - black tops, black pants, black shoes, black caps, etc. ?
Bank robbery suspect arrested near Atlanta
A man accused of robbing eight South Carolina banks was arrested in Decatur, Ga., on Saturday.
Frank Douglas, 49, of Beech Island, was being held at the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office after being found at a Decatur hotel with a female friend, according to a South Carolina FBI Field Office news release. Warrants have been issued for Mr. Douglas by the FBI, Aiken County, Orangeburg County, city of Columbia and the city of Cayce.
No injuries after home burns down in blaze
A home near the Columbia and Richmond county lines was destroyed by fire Saturday night, but no injuries were reported.
The blaze at 483 Falcon Drive, near Stevens Creek Road, was first reported about 9 p.m., said Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue Spokeswoman Honey Shore. She said firefighters from Martinez-Columbia and Richmond County responded. Efforts to extinguish the fire were initially hampered, she said, as the closest hydrant had no water. The cause of the fire was under investigation late Saturday.
Two armed robberies reported on Saturday
Armed robberies were reported at two businesses in the Augusta area Saturday.
On Saturday morning, a man entered the Express Cash on 13th Street wearing a black zip-up hoodie, black knit cap and a black bandana around his face and brandishing a silver handgun, according to a sheriff's office report. He demanded money from the clerk and her purse, the report states. The woman did not have a purse, but the suspect left with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The suspect is described as black, 5 foot 2 inches tall, and 130 pounds. That afternoon, a man wearing a black shirt, black shorts and black skull cap entered the China Express on Tobacco Road in Hephzibah and forced the cashier at gun point to open the cash register, a sheriff's office report states. The suspect in that case is described as a black teen, 6 foot 1 inch tall and 160 pounds.
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Is there any significance that lately all the robbery suspects have been dressed in black - black tops, black pants, black shoes, black caps, etc. ?
Ninjas!
Black is so slimming!
Gives all of them a dress code to work with -- keep it neat and easy to describe....
Gives all of them a dress code to work with -- keep it neat and easy to describe....
Todays uniform is all black for a bonus of all the cash in the drawer.
also the black teen part
Please put that ad somewhere else; it's covering up things worth reading. Put it in one of the empty spots.
[filtered word] thieves, I hope the next victims have guns too, and stops them permenantly!!!!! [filtered word]'s dont deserve to live in a civilized society!!!
No surprise where most of the robberies, etc happen, either. The main reason we moved to Columbia County. Yeh, there's crime everywhere, believe me, in my line of work I know. But you can't deny what South Augusta has become.
South Augusta has numerous crimes that have not been solved including the robbery of Air Cargo when the whole trailer load of motors were taken from this establishment, a reward would have given the answers needed to solve that case. Let's you know money talks everytime.
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