Authorities are continuing their investigation into a Monday night armed robbery in Maben in which the suspect fled with hundreds in cash.
Officer Stanley Modzelewski of the Maben Police Department said the robbery at Faye's Package Store, 4107 Highway 15, was reported about 6:40 p.m. He said the female employee on duty at the time gave this account of the crime:
A man entered the store and appeared to be casing it out. He then came to the counter, pointed a small black pistol at the employee and inquired about a safe. Told there wasn't one, he ordered the employee to open the cash drawer and she complied.
The robber asked her if she had a weapon and she pointed to it. After ordering her to lie on the floor, he jumped on top of the counter and retrieved money from the cash drawer. He then took the pistol behind the counter plus the employee's cell phone and power cord, and fled the store with around $600 in cash.
Modzelewski said that as soon as the employee heard the door close, she got up and looked in the parking lot but did not see the suspect or a vehicle leaving, and therefore he was apparently on foot.
The employee, the officer said, described the suspect as a light-skinned black male between 18 and 21 in age, 5-4 to 5-6 in height and weighing 115-120 pounds. He had short hair and no facial hair, was wearing blue jeans, a dark-blue windbreaker and a brown baseball cap. The weapon was believed to have been a .25- or .32-caliber.
Modzelewski said officers with the Maben and Mathiston police departments plus the Oktibbeha and Webster County sheriffs' departments searched for the suspect but were unable to locate him. No arrest had been made as of Tuesday night.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the Maben Police Department at 263-4212 or the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Department at 323-2421
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