ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, June 11, 1996 TAG: 9606110047
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
A 26-year-old man walked into the Roanoke Police Department early Saturday and confessed to two recent convenience store robberies, police said.
Michael Lynn Craft of the 1700 block of Westview Avenue Southwest told a detective he wanted to clear his conscience, police said.
He was charged with robbing the Stop In Food Store at 1828 Memorial Ave. S.W. and the Uni-Mart at 1115 Main St. S.W.
The Stop In Food robbery occurred March 11. At 5:45 a.m., a man walked into the store holding a knife, threatened to cut the clerk, and demanded that she open the cash register. The clerk complied, and the man fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. The clerk was not injured.
The Uni-Mart robbery occurred May 10. A man entered the store about 5 a.m. and walked up to the counter as if he wanted to buy a bottle of water, police said. Instead, the man asked the clerk how to open the cash register, opened it himself, then took money and food stamps. The man fled on foot.
In an unrelated incident early Saturday, police said two men wearing pillowcases over their heads robbed the Uni-Mart at 3842 Shenandoah Ave. N.W. One of the men leaned over the counter, grabbed the cash register and took money and food stamps. The men fled on foot.
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