Police arrested a suspect soon after the crime.
A Dollar General employee was sprayed with mace during a robbery at the Lee Road store at 8:50 p.m. June 9. A man walked into the Lee Road store and was browsing for a while before he stopped an employee and asked her to open the safe, according to police reports. He gave her a bag and told her to fill it with money. She complied, and after she handed him the bag, he sprayed her with mace. The man fled and shortly after Cleveland Heights police arrested a suspect at the Sunoco gas station just down the road. Police charged Charles Fitzgerald, 43, of Cleveland, with aggravated robbery.
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Cleveland Heights man leaves cell phone behind after robbing two people at gunpoint, prosecutors say
A Cleveland Heights man who prosecutors say robbed two people in a car at gunpoint appeared in court Wednesday. Carl Sanders, 21, took money, a purse and other items from two people sitting in a car parked on the side of a Marathon Gas Station on Woodland Avenue in Cleveland Feb. 26, said Ryan Miday, spokesperson for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason's Office. But he left something behind. Sanders opened the door and pointed a gun at a 31-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man. Prosecutors said he told them not to move, reached into the man's pocket and stole money, then reached toward the back and attempted to grab the woman's purse while continuing to point the gun at them. When he couldn't reach, he told the woman, "Shut up and …
ILUVCH
4:15 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
43 years old, Can you believe it? 43 and spraying someone with mace after the clerk gave him money. I can see a hyped up teenage or 20'somthing getting a ego rush out of spraying mace in someones face but 43? Really? Can we just lock this guy up, he is to damm old to be rehabilitated. How do you rehabilitate and asshole? I am all for giving a young man or woman a second chance, but a 43 year old … more ›