Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, July 19, 1990                   TAG: 9007190644
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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5 MEN ACCUSED AFTER INCIDENT AT STORE IN CITY

A clerk at the Pic Quik store in the 4500 block of Salem Turnpike Northwest told police that a man tried to walk out of the store about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday without paying for two 12-packs of beer.

The clerk chased the man and tackled him in the store's parking lot. An armed man then stepped from behind some bushes and threatened to kill the clerk, police said.

As the clerk backed off, the two men fled and were joined by a third man. The men stopped to drink the beer in a nearby wooded area, where they were confronted by police.

Minor Edward Caldwell, 28, of Ward Street Northwest, ran to a nearby home in the 1100 block of Summit Avenue and hid in the bathroom. Caldwell was arrested and charged with robbery by violence. Two occupants of the home, Herbert Lloyd Ferris, 71, and Jerry Allen Ferris, 36, were charged with impeding police.

Authorities found the two other men allegedly involved in the robbery in the wooded area. Troy Dean Riddle, 26, of Ferrum was charged with armed robbery and Marvin Everette Hicks of Salem was charged with being a principal in the second degree to robbery.