Sardis police seek Food Mart robbers 3/20/2015
Published 12:00 am Friday, March 20, 2015
The Sardis Police released security footage of a male wearing a green sweatshirt acting as a watchman as the man in the grey sweatshirt enters the store office taking the store manager’s wallet. The pair were also recorded entering the Shell (Oakland) across the street, but left when they couldn’t find the office, said Sardis Assistant Police Chief, Travis Nichols.
A screenshot of the security camera in Oakland captures man in grey hooded sweatshirt stealing the store manager’s wallet from the gas station’s office. He is believed to also be the same man recorded stealing the deposit bag from the Sardis Food Mart. (see videos)
A screenshot from the Sardis Food Mart shows the same black male in grey hooded sweatshirt leaving the restrooms with a black male who tucked the deposit bag under his baggy sweater before exiting the store. The man in the grey hooded sweatshirt acted as the look out for the Sardis robbery. Owners of the Sardis store, John and Tommy White, have offered a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the culprits.(The man in the baggy sweater is not believed to be the same man in the gre
By Emily Williams and Rupert Howell
Sardis Police are looking for two black males who robbed the Sardis Food Mart on East Lee at the northeast quadrant of I-55 and Hwy 315 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. One of the robbers is believed to have been involved in the robbery of the Oakland Exxon at I-55 Saturday.
Police believe the bald male in a grey hooded sweat shirt seen in the surveillance video from the Sardis Food Mart robbery Sunday night March 15 is the same man shown in video from the Oakland store. His likeness was captured taking the Oakland store manager’s wallet out of the desk in the store office.
Owners of the Sardis store, John and Tommy White, have offered a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the culprits.
Sardis Police Chief Chris Martin released security video footage of the pair going into the Food Mart office where a money bag with approximately $3,600 in deposits, $2,200 of that in cash, was placed.
“They knew something,” Martin said of the culprits who display suspicious behavior as they enter the convenience store’s rest rooms with one going in and coming out of the store’s office apparently hiding something under a baggy sweater.
He then re-enters the rest room before joining the other man as they leave the store and get into what appears to be a small white pickup.
The Sardis Police released security footage of a male wearing a green sweatshirt acting as a watchman as the man in the grey sweatshirt enters the store office taking the store manager’s wallet.
The pair were also recorded entering the Shell (Oakland) across the street, but left when they couldn’t find the office, said Sardis Assistant Police Chief, Travis Nichols. Sardis Police released security video footage of the pair going into the office in both stores in Oakland and Sardis.
“It’s the same situation as the robbery in Sardis,” the officer said.
