St. Peters:--- The owners of Ho Supermarket and St. Peters Supermarket located on the main road to St. Peters are on their wits ends as they have been victims of armed robberies twice this past week. According to the owners of both supermarkets, they were first robbed on Wednesday December 21st and again on Thursday December 29th. The female cashier of Ho's Supermarket told SMN News that last week Wednesday two armed gun men wearing only a bandana over their faces robbed them after robbing two other Chinese Supermarkets in the immediate area. The cashier said they were robbed of their daily sales which amounted to about $400.00 while on Thursday morning they were robbed again by the two gunmen whom they recognized as the same gunmen that robbed them last week Wednesday. On Thursday morning, they said they were held up at 9:05am and they robbers managed to escape with about $500.00
The owner of St. Peters Supermarket said last week Wednesday he was robbed of $1,500 and this week the two gunmen robbed him of $500.00. The male owner and cashier at the time of the robbery said the two men whom he recognized as the same culprits that robbed him last week pointed a gun at him before robbing him. The Chinese businessman said when he called police last week they took over an hour before they responded to the scene. According to the businessman, that gave the culprits ample time to escape. He said both robberies were recorded on the supermarket surveillance camera, however, on Thursday morning police responded to the scene in record time. "They reached here like ten minutes after we were robbed and they took the surveillance tape with them. We heard the police made some arrests. We are just hoping that they apprehended the two culprits that robbed us both times this week."SMN News learned that police made some arrests on Thursday morning shortly after the robberies took place. Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson confirmed that police responded to the scene after they were informed that two of the three supermarkets that were robbed last week were robbed again on Thursday morning. Henson also confirmed that police arrested some people but he was not sure if they are the culprits that robbed the two supermarkets.
