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February 18, 2008

Providence police looking for robber of Savers Mart

PROVIDENCE -- The police are looking for a “strong-arm robber” in a dark-colored Hyundai who held up Savers Mart, 871 Elmwood Ave., Elmwood, and fled with a reported $1,450.

Amir Kattan, 24, a clerk, told the police that a man walked into the store shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday, asked to buy two cigarettes and handed him a dollar bill. When Kattan opened his cash register to make change, the man jumped the counter, knocked Kattan against the wall and barked, “I’m loaded. Don’t do nothing stupid.”

The man then scooped the cash from the register, ran out and left in a dark four-door Hyundai with Rhode Island license plates.

When someone uses his physical might rather than a weapon to steal something, the police call it a strong-arm robbery.

The suspect was described as white, with salt and pepper hair and scruffy facial hair, and in his late 30s or early 40s. He was said to be muscular, about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, and wearing blue jeans, a black leather jacket, black leather gloves, a black baseball cap and large silver sunglasses.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

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