State police arrest a man accused of robbing Saccorsi's Bar in Preston County last month.
28-year-old Steve Dewitt is charged with first degree robbery.
State police say Dewitt went into the bar with a gun on October 6th wearing a clown mask, tied up the bartender, and got away with some cash. Police later recovered the mask and compared DNA with suspects in the case.
Dewitt did confess to the crime, and is being held in the North Central Regional Jail.
WHEELING - Aaron Thomas Holstein is a suspect in two armed robberies, but for now he is only facing charges in one of them.
Wheeling police arrested Holstein, 34, at 10:39 p.m. Thursday in a home at 24 Seventh St. in North Wheeling. He is being held today in the Northern Regional Jail on a charge of aggravated robbery stemming from the Oct. 15 armed robbery of the Family Market Custom Killing butcher shop in Centerville.
Holstein also is suspected of robbing Warwood's Florist Creative Arts & Crafts at gunpoint on Oct. 14, police said.
Today, Wheeling Police Chief Robert Matheny said Holstein formerly lived in Ohio and has family in Belmont County. He said police learned recently that Holstein has lived in the North Wheeling residence for about the past month.
There were similarities in the armed robberies in Warwood and Centerville, according to reports. In both cases, the robber wandered around the business before pulling a small, silver handgun and demanding money.
Matheny said, although Holstein is a suspect in the Warwood crime, investigators are not ready to file charges against him in that robbery.
"We aren't going to jump to any conclusions," Matheny said. "We are not at that juncture in the investigation. He's definitely a suspect, and we're investigating all possibilities."
Warwood's Florist owner Linda Contraguerro said today she was relieved to learn the suspect is behind bars. She said she feared the man who robbed the store would return.
Warwood's Florist employee Alicia Drevna was the woman who faced the gun in that armed robbery. On Wednesday, she saw a picture of Holstein who had just been named as the suspect in the Belmont County robbery. She immediately believed it was the same man who pointed a gun at her.
Kristopher A. Speas, 27, Weston - grand larceny and conspiracy.
Eric J. Metz, 39, Weston - armed robbery, malicious wounding, conspiracy, burglary and petit larceny.
Christopher L. Eakle, 27, Clarksburg - entering without breaking, attempted grand larceny, grand larceny and conspiracy
NITRO -- Nitro police arrested two people Thursday after a man is robbed at knife point.
George Henderson, IV and Stephanie Knox are facing felony charges.
Nitro police said a man reported being robbed at Thursday evening on Third Avenue.
The victim told police Knox lured him out of the home. Police said Henderson then robbed him.
Both suspects are in the South Central Regional jail
WINFIELD -- The suspect in the armed robbery of a Gino's Pizza in Hurricane waived his preliminary hearing Wednesday.
Putnam County Magistrate Kim Blair set the bond for Justin Graham at $50,000. Graham asked for the bond to be lowered, but Blair refused. And she included another stipulation: If Graham is able to post bond, he is not allowed to step foot in a Gino's Pizza.
Graham is accused of holding up the Gino's in Hurricane on the morning of Oct. 28. Brandi Bird also is charged in the case.
Gino's manager Angie Davis resisted the robber by throwing a pizza and a leather case at him. Graham and Bird were arrested later that morning.
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