The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

August 7, 2008

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


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.