<img src="http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/policeandfire.gif" border=0 > Armed robber flees with cash from video store

August 08, 2008 12:20 am

— An adult-video store was robbed Thursday morning by a lone gunman, according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s deputies responded at 4:06 a.m. to a report of a robbery at Vegas Video at County Road 100 and Interstate 44.
The store’s clerk told deputies of being robbed by a man in his late 30s or early 40s brandishing a handgun. The clerk was not harmed, according to a department statement.
The robber was described as bald, with brown eyes and a brown goatee.