Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 20, 1994 TAG: 9407200107
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MIKE HUDSON
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Only she wasn't at the store. She was calling from a bar next door to tell police that a man had pulled a knife, pushed her out of the store, grabbed her keys - then locked himself inside.
When police arrived, they saw the door to the beer cooler open, then shut. By the time they pushed open the front door, no one was in the cooler.
The robber had locked himself in the bathroom.
When he opened the door for the officers, they found 10 cans of Budweiser beer in the room with him - one of them already half-empty.
Police charged Jimmy Wayne Crook, 37, of McDivitt Road in Salem, with robbery.
Detective Sgt. Dan Divers said officers took Crook to Lewis-Gale Hospital, where he was treated for illness that apparently stemmed from the effects of alcohol or drugs - or both.
"I understand," Divers said, "that they induced removal of such from his stomach and then returned him to jail for safekeeping.''
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