Victim zone robbery: Another Family Dollar gets hit

The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a Family Dollar discount store was robbed Thursday night after a man posing as a customer said he had a gun and demanded cash, police said.

The holdup occurred at the Family Dollar store in the Wooster-Hawkins Shopping Plaza in West Akron. A clerk reported that a man entered shortly after 9:30 p.m. and approached the counter as if he were going to buy a soda pop.

Once the register was open, the man said he had a gun and ordered the clerk to put money in a plastic bag. Police said the robber fled with about $1,400.

Some Family Dollar stores in Ohio post "no-guns" signs at entrances.

Family Dollar can be contacted at its corporate offices as follows:

Post Office Box 1017
Charlotte, North Carolina 28201-1017
Telephone (704)847-6961

Click here to send an electronic message.

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