Crime & Safety
Salem Store Robbery One of Two in Area Thursday
Within less than two hours on Thursday night, a Salem convenience store was one of two robberies in the area.
A Salem convenience store was robbed Thursday night by a man with a similar description to the robber of a Peabody store a mile away.
At about 8:45 p.m. on Thursday, a man with a gun robbed Your Neighborhood Market at the corner of School and Tremont streets. The robber was described as a six-foot tall man wearing a mask.
A little more than an hour later, at 10:05 p.m, Peabody police responded to Town Variety after a man robbed the store. The suspect, described as a black male, who is 6 feet tall, who was wearing a mask, white sneakers with a black stripe, black pants and a Yankee baseball hat, showed a handgun to the clerk.
There have been no arrest in either robbery.
The Salem News reported that it was not known yet whether the two robberies are connected.
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