
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, September 27, 1994                   TAG: 9409270131
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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BEER-DRINKING ROBBER TO GET TREATMENT

A Salem man - charged with robbing a convenience store clerk, locking himself in the store's bathroom and drinking beer - pleaded guilty Monday in Salem Circuit Court.

Jimmy Wayne Crook, 37, of McDivitt Road in Salem agreed to plead guilty as part of a plea agreement and is expected to begin his six-year sentence at a drug rehabilitation center. After he successfully completes the program, his sentence could be suspended, according to Commonwealth's Attorney M. Frederick King.

Crook was arrested July 18, after a clerk at the Village Store on East Main Street identified him as the man who pulled a knife on her, pushed her out of the store, grabbed her keys, then locked himself inside the store with 10 cans of beer.

by CNB