Press Release
DATE: October 30, 2009
INCIDENT NUMBER: 09CC07036
OFFICER: Sergeant Charles Cole
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Colchester Police are investigating the attempted Armed Robbery of the Champlain Farms convenience store located on US Route 7 near Exit 16 in Colchester, VT.
At approximately 01:33 AM this morning, a male subject wearing a mask entered the store and demanded money from the clerk. The suspect was holding a hammer in one hand and a spray can type object in the other hand. The clerk refused to surrender the money and advanced towards the suspect. The clerk grabbed the suspect in an attempt to force the suspect out of the store to avoid being sprayed with the item the suspect was holding. The suspect struck the clerk one time with the hammer and then left the store. The clerk was not seriously injured and watched the suspect flee to the rear of the store towards South Park Drive.
The suspect is described as a white male between 6’00” and 6’02” tall wearing brown canvas Carhartt type pants, a green shirt, with a green ski mask pulled over his head & face.
Surveillance footage of this crime is forthcoming later this morning and will be distributed to the MEDIA as soon as it becomes available. Anyone with any information about this crime is urged to call the Colchester Police Department at 802.264.5555.
