Two robbed at gunpoint at drive-in

Published 12:00 am Thursday, May 21, 2009

An armed robbery was reported Tuesday night at Bumpers, a drive-in restaurant on Mississippi 27.

Two employees were leaving the restaurant a little after 11 p.m., carrying a night deposit bag containing $606.80, said Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace, when they were robbed at gunpoint by two men. The victim holding the bag dropped it, a sheriff’s department report said, and one of the attackers grabbed the bag and they both fled east on foot.

The attackers are described as being black and wearing all black, one 5-foot-6 and thin and one 5-foot-9 and heavy built.

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It was the first armed robbery reported since four teens, including a Warren Central basketball standout, were charged in a string of armed robberies in the city this past month. Police have said more arrests were expected. 

Pace said it was too early to tell if the Bumpers robbery was related, and that Warren County deputies have been in contact with