| June 29,
2001 |
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| Arrests
Made in Convenience Store Robbery |
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| Two persons have been jailed in connection with
an armed robbery of the Southern Convenience Store in Rutherford College
yesterday. |
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Timothy
Bowen |
Angie
Mayfield |
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| Timothy Brian Bowen, 21, is facing a robbery
with a dangerous weapon charge while Angie Stamey Mayfield, 33, was charged
with being an accessory after the fact of a felony, according to Burke County
Sheriff's Office Detective David Warlick. |
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| At 6:28 PM, the Sheriff's Office received a call
from the convenience store clerk, Christmas Edwards, telling that she had been
robbed at knife point. Edwards later told officers arriving on the scene that a
man came into the store and milled around while she waited on other customers.
When the store was free from customers, the man walked to the counter and asked
for change for the telephone. |
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| Edwards told authorities she turned to open the
register and the man produced a bladed weapon from his pants pocket and
demanded the money from the register. She reportedly gave the man approximately
$70 in cash. |
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| The man left the store and got into a blue
Mustang which was driven by a white female, Edwards told investigators. The
Mustang left the parking lot onto Perkins Road. |
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| Deputy Alan Cobb saw a vehicle matching the
description approximately five minutes later on Laurel Road in Valdese. After a
short chase, the Mustang spun out of control attempting to turn onto Lovelady
Road, according to Warlick. The driver reportedly stopped the vehicle and
put her hands outside the window. |
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| The suspects, later identified as Mayfield and
Bowen were frisked and officers received permission to search the vehicle,
Warlick said. Authorities, including a Valdese officer, a N.C. Probation/Parole
officer and Sheriff John T. McDevitt, located what appeared to be crack cocaine
lying in Bowen's car seat. Officers removed the seat and found a knife matching
the description of the one used in the robbery, Warlick stated. Warlick
said a search for the money taken from the robbery concluded when Bowen spit
$60 from his mouth. |
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| Bowen and Mayfield were positively identified by
Edwards later, along with the blue Mustang. Bowen was jailed under a $75,000
secured bond and Mayfield was given a $5,000 secured bond. Both suspects have a
first court appearance today. |
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