Saturday, December 1, 2012
A 43-year-old Lynn man is accused of robbing a downtown Peabody convenience store, along with stores in other North Shore communities in recent days.
A Lynn man charged with holding up the Town Variety store on Central Street on Nov. 25 is being held on $100,000 cash bail, reports the Salem News. Dennis C. Porter, 43, of Lynn, is also the main suspect in similar recent robberies in Salem, Beverly and Danvers, and is expected to face charges in those cases as well. Porter was arraigned in Peabody District Court on Thursday for one count of armed robbery in the Peabody case and has pleaded not guilty, reports the Salem News. Police say Porter entered the convenience store and gave the clerk a losing lottery ticket to scan before showing a weapon and making off with cash. A second man, Glenn Roderick, 41, of Peabody, is also charged with armed robbery in the case, but according to police, …
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Police say the "firearm" used in the robbery appears to be a pellet gun.
Peabody police have now arrested two men who are being charged with the armed robbery at Town Variety on Sunday night and will also be facing charges in other North Shore holdups in recent days. Dennis Porter, 43, of Lynn, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Peabody District Court for armed robbery. Glenn Roderick, 41, of Peabody, was already arraigned on that same charge on Tuesday. Police now say it was Porter who allegedly entered the convenience store Sunday night around 9 p.m., showed a weapon to the clerk and demanded cash. The robbers made off with approximately $2,000 from a lottery machine cash drawer, reports the Salem News. According to an incident report filed at Roderick's arraignment, police say one suspect walked to the…
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Salem police detectives are investigating the possibility that the key suspect in an armed robbery in Peabody was the same man who held up a 7-Eleven in Salem on Nov. 16.
Salem police say they are looking at a Peabody man arrested Monday in connection to an armed robbery as a possible suspect in a similar robbery Nov. 16 at a convenience store in Salem. The description of the suspect in Sunday night's robbery at Town Variety in Peabody -- a white male in his 40s, who was dressed in a dark plaid green jacket, black winter hat and jeans and wielding a small black handgun -- appears to match exactly this surveillance image taken during the armed robbery at a 7-Eleven in Salem. Salem Police Capt. Thomas Griffin said Tuesday that detectives Brian St. Pierre and Dennis Gaudet have been working closely with Peabody police since early Monday morning and are "taking a very close look" at whether the two robberies …
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Monday, November 26, 2012
A 41-year-old Peabody man was arrested Monday afternoon in connection with an armed robbery Sunday night at a downtown convenience store.
Peabody police arrested a Peabody man Monday afternoon on a warrant in connection to an armed robbery at Town Variety the night before. Glenn E. Roderick, 41, of 18 Elm St. #2, Peabody, was served with an outstanding warrant from Peabody District Court for a charge of armed robbery with a firearm. According to a police log entry, Roderick was taken into custody by Detective Joseph Gilroy at approximately 1:49 p.m. at 117 Lowell St. Police had been searching for Roderick and another male suspect since shortly before 9 p.m. on Sunday when the robbery occurred. Both state police K-9s and helicopters aided in the search Sunday night. According to a log entry of the incident, the Central Street convenience store was robbed by a white male in …
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
The Central Street convenience store was robbed Sunday night by a man with a gun.
Peabody police, state troopers and multiple K-9 units were out searching for two suspects in an armed robbery Sunday night. A robbery was reported at Town Variety on Central Street just before 9 p.m. Police said the suspects fled in a silver van, bailing from the vehicle and taking off on foot into a building at 86R Endicott St. The main suspect, a Lynn man, allegedly showed a gun during the robbery. According to scanner reports, officers at the scene Sunday night possibly recovered that weapon outside the building on Endicott Street. The second suspect is a Peabody man who lives at Esquire Circle and was allegedly driving the van. State police said one man was wearing a gray or blue sweatshirt and the other was wearing a flannel jacket. …
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Saber Walsh
12:05 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Agree! And the same people who say that cheap bail for potentially violent felons is okay are the same who want to take away any rights you have to defend yourself. No wonder why New Hampshire is complaining about the flight of former Mass residents (Mass is laughingly referred to as "South Ontario"). more ›