The ongoing investigation into the Oct. 8 armed robbery at the Gulf gas station in Baldwin may be connected to a recent armed robbery in a neighboring county.
“They are still following leads (on the Baldwin robbery),” Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell says of Habersham County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) investigators. “There was an armed robbery in Franklin County and a possible description match down there, so they are in conversation with Franklin County and are waiting for photos from the place that got robbed down there.”
Lottery tickets and an undisclosed amount of money were stolen from the Gulf gas station at the intersection of the 441 Bypass and Industrial Boulevard in Baldwin in the early morning hours of Oct. 8. Surveillance photos taken at a burglary the same night at a liquor store in neighboring Mount Airy lead investigators to believe the same individuals may be involved in both crimes, Terrell says.
The Lottery Commission informed the HCSO that an attempt was made at a Gainesville store to cash in some of the lottery tickets taken during the Gulf robbery.
“It was a female (that tried to cash in the tickets) and they’re not being real cooperative,” Terrell told Now Habersham Thursday afternoon.
Terrell said investigators are continuing to work the case, and anyone with information on the robbery should contact the HSCO at (706) 839-1724.
The HCSO is also continuing an investigation into a September 18 armed robbery at Citizens Finance of Cornelia off the 441 Bypass. A female employee of the bank reported the robbery, saying a man armed with a revolver took approximately $2,000 and fled on foot. The employee described the suspect as a white male around six-feet tall with long hair pulled back into a ponytail. He was wearing a black shirt, had light colored eyes and sported a dragon tattoo on his left forearm with a smaller tattoo below that. Police say the suspect may possibly have tattoos on his neck as well.
