MOULTRIE — Moultrie stores reported two armed robbery attempts just a few minutes apart Friday night. One of them was successful.

The first report came in at 8:21 p.m., Moultrie police said. An officer was dispatched to Oxley's, 818 W. Central Ave., where three employees said a woman came to the door brandishing a pistol. When the woman found the door was locked, she got in a black vehicle and drove away.

The employees said the car had been in the parking lot about 10 minutes before the woman got out of it.

Moultrie police received an alarm call at Plymel's Package Store, 205 Fifth St. S.E., at 8:35 p.m. Before officers could arrive, the clerk at the store had confirmed to the 911 dispatcher that the store had been robbed.

The clerk said a black woman had parked a black Nissan Maxima in the front of the parking lot and entered the store. She was wearing a black aviator cap/hoodie and a long, robe-like cloak, and she had a black plastic bag covering her face. She brandished a pistol and demanded money from the cash register, then ordered everyone in the store to lie flat and not move. Money was put in a bag, and the robber returned to her car and drove away.

Police said an undetermined amount of cash was taken.



Other thefts

Moultrie Police

• An employee of Lasseter Tractor Co., 1000 Veterans Parkway, reported Thursday that several items had gone missing with a total value of $5,523. The employee said the thefts apparently took place over about two and a half months.

• Police are investigating a possibly stolen Ruger .30-06 rifle that was pawned Nov. 24.

• Geraldine Snyder, 2100 block East Central Avenue, told police someone took a 22-inch flat-screen television from inside her Pontiac Montana van between Tuesday and Thursday. She said the van had been left unlocked.

• Leonardo Valverde, 600 block West Bypass, told police Thursday that someone stole a radiator out of his yard during the night.

• Cynthia and Karen Harrison, 400 block Sixth Avenue Southeast, reported that their residence had been broken into between 2 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Thursday. Several articles of clothing and electronic items were missing, with an estimated value of $945.

• An employee of Dollar General, 1908 First Ave. S.E., told police Friday that a woman had shopped in the store for a few minutes, putting several items into her buggy, then she put a couple of items back and left the store. Nothing remained in the buggy, which made the employee think the woman had put the remaining items — toiletries and underwear — in her purse. The total value of the items was estimated at $27.75.

In an unrelated incident, the same employee called police Saturday about another shoplifting. In that case, a woman entered the store with a little boy and they shopped a while. In their buggy were a lot of food items and some clothes, she said. When they finished, the woman checked out and paid for the food items, the employee said, but there were no longer clothes in the buggy. She said the woman held the front of her clothes as if she were concealing something under them. The employee tried to stop the woman, but she hustled the boy into a car and drove away. The missing merchandise was valued at $33.

• Victoria Levon Ellis, 400 block Third Avenue Northwest, reported Friday that a disability check had been taken from the mailbox at her former residence in the 700 block of Fifth Avenue Southwest.

• Stephanie Ross, 400 block 10th Avenue Southeast, said someone took her son's bicycle while they were at church Sunday evening.

• Phyllis Dianne Murray, of Berlin, told police Sunday evening that someone broke the window of her Ford Taurus while it was parked at Moultrie Church of God, 3113 S. Veterans Parkway. Her purse was missing from the vehicle's floorboard; it contained $21 in cash, four debit cards, three Medicaid cards, an insurance card, four Social Security cards and a cell phone valued at $200. The value of the window was not known.