Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, December 17, 1994 TAG: 9412190062
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Friday, the woman told police she had been looking for marijuana Wednesday afternoon on a street in Northwest Roanoke.
Two men approached her and said they would get her some. So she gave them the car she was driving - a 1988 Chevrolet Corsica that belonged to her boyfriend.
The men never returned, she said. Police found the car abandoned on the 2400 block of Massachusetts Avenue Northwest.
Police said the woman would be charged with giving false reports to law enforcement officers, but they would not release her name until a warrant was secured.
Elsewhere, a Family Dollar Store clerk reported that she was robbed as she made a store deposit Thursday night at the Crestar Bank at 3403 Williamson Road.
Barbara Ann Brewer told police that a man ran toward her yelling as she got out of her car with a money bag to make the deposit. She described him as wearing a yellow ski mask and dark-gray hooded jacket.
Brewer threw the bag at the man and he fled with it. It contained an undisclosed amount of currency and checks.
Two witnesses told police they saw the man hiding behind a parked vehicle on Huntington Boulevard as Brewer got out of her car. One of the witnesses ran after the man when he took the bag, but could not catch him.
by CNB