Armed robber hits night deposit, 'I won't make a deposit without an escort now,' manager says

An armed man robbed a grocery store manager making a night deposit here Friday night and escaped with more than $20,000 in cash and checks.

Washington Police investigator Lt. Joe Nelson said that Ingles' store manager Jake Stowers, accompanied by the store's bookkeeper, was making their regular night deposit at the Farmers and Merchants Bank just a hundred yards from the grocery store.

"I pulled up to the drop box and a guy came around the corner with a gun," Stowers said. "He stuck it in the truck window, right in my face. I gave it [the deposit] to him."

Merchants regularly call for a police escort when they make a night deposit, and Stowers said that it was Ingles company policy to do so. "I won't make a deposit without an escort now. You just don't expect something like this in a small town."

The thief, who Nelson described as a black male wearing a bandanna over his face, ran from the area. Washington Police officers searched the residential area nearby and kept roads under surveillance in an effort to locate the suspect, but he escaped.

Nelson said that the case has been turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for further investigation.

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