Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

By Randal Edgar
Journal staff writer

WARWICK -- A convenience store on Greenwich Avenue today became latest business to be robbed by a man claiming to have a gun, the police said.

The suspect entered the Greenwich Avenue Shell store at about 2:30 a.m., told the clerk he had a gun under his sweatshirt and asked for the all the money, said Police Lt. Michael Higgins.

After taking the money, the suspect walked in a southerly direction away from the store and got into a car on Chapmans Avenue, driving away with the headlights off, Higgins said.

Higgins described the suspect as a white male, about 5-feet-6 to 5-feet-10 inches tall, in his mid-to-late 20s.

A day earlier, a man said to be in his 50s robbed the Dunkin' Donuts coffee shop at 860 Post Road. And the day before that, a man said to have been in his 50s robbed the Dunkin' Donuts on Jefferson Boulevard.

Higgins said the police are investigating the robberies and don't know if they are related.

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