Robbery

A Junction¿City man was arrested Friday for second-degree robbery after allegedly hitting a Walmart security guard who tried to detain him for shoplifting, Danville Police Chief Tony¿Gray said. David A. Price, 32, allegedly tried to steal a Blu-Ray player and was stopped by a Wal Mart security guard, according to Gray. Price allegedly struck the employee and ran away from the scene. Witnesses saw Price enter a white convertible with a black top.¿A Danville police officer saw a vehicle matching that description and stopped it on South Town Drive near Daniel¿Drive.

Danville police are looking for four men accused of robbing and assaulting a Cincinnati man with a gun early Saturday morning. According to Interim Chief Tony Gray, police were initially called to Harlan Nights Club at 600 S. Second St. in Danville at 12:49 a.m. after a purse was reported stolen. When Police arrived they discovered that a man in an apartment above the club had been pistol whipped and robbed by a group of four men, who also stole the victim's vehicle. Witnesses said four black males, at least two armed with handguns, entered the apartment and one of the suspects struck Porter Hughes, 30, of Cincinnati, on the head four or five times with a handgun.

Danville Police are looking for four men accused of robbing and assaulting a Cincinnati man with a gun early Saturday morning. According to Interim Chief Tony Gray, police were initially called to Harlan Nights Club at 600 South Second St. in Danville at 12:49 a.m. after a purse was reported stolen. When Police arrived they discovered that a man in an apartment above the club had been pistol whipped and robbed by a group of four men, who also stole the victim's vehicle. Witnesses said four black males, at least two armed with handguns, entered the apartment and one of the suspects struck Porter Hughes, 30, of Cincinnati on the head four or five times with a handgun.

The case against a Clark County woman who allegedly robbed the Broadway Corner Market in December was waived to the Clark County grand jury Wednesday. According to a Winchester Police arrest citation, the store was robbed on Dec. 27 by a woman who entered the store, implied she had a weapon and demanded money from the clerk. After getting an undisclosed amount of cash, the woman fled the store. Savannah Hall, 27, of 1242 Irvine Road, was arrested in Bath County a short time later and charged with first-degree robbery.

Four suspects from an October armed robbery on Berry Patch Drive in Wilmore have been indicted by a Jessamine County grand jury. Three of the four suspects have been arrested and are lodged in the Jessamine County Detention Center. William Penn, 18, of Georgetown; Rodney Jones, 20, of Nicholasville; and Robert Sheeley, 22, of Nicholasville have been arrested and are scheduled to appear in Jessamine District Court Jan. 13 at 8:30 a.m. The men have been charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and theft by unlawful taking valued at $500 or more.

Police have released surveillance footage of a robbery that took place Wednesday at Subway restaurant near the South Danville Bypass. According to police, two employees were taking a break on the patio of the restaurant on Finn Hill Drive shortly before 8 p.m. when the suspect, who was armed with a handgun and wearing a skeleton mask, entered the business. When the suspect approached the employees, one of them fled down the back stairway and the other can be seen in the video running toward a walk-in freezer.

CRAB ORCHARD - A man attempting to rob a Crab Orchard store Wednesday morning didn't make it very far. “He was apprehended within five minutes of walking out the door,” Lincoln County Sheriff Curt Folger said. Chad Bennett, 31, walked into D&M Market on Stanford Street about 10 a.m. Wednesday, advised the female clerk he had a gun and demanded cash from the register, Folger said. However, the clerk refused to hand over any money. “I think she was going to whip his butt,” Folger said.

Three men from central Kentucky have been arrested and charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree assault following a month-long investigation by the Jessamine County Sheriff's Department. Keith T. Gaines, 24, of Nicholasville; Emilio Hernandez, 18, of Georgetown; and Steven Lee Gregory, 21, of Lexington allegedly attacked a 21-year-old male on Glass Mill Road, near Figg Lane in the Wilmore area on Sept. 18, according to a news release from the sheriff's office. The incident occurred when the three men approached the victim in their car as he was walking along the road, Chief Deputy Allen Peel said.

The Wilmore Police Department is searching for four men involved in an armed robbery at a home on Berry Patch Drive early Sunday morning. The incident occurred just before 2 a.m. when four male subjects entered the residence through an unlocked back door. The men woke up the female victim and ransacked the house while one of the men held her at gunpoint, Wilmore police officer Jeff Bol said. The victim told police that the men kept calling out times to each other, like warnings of how much time they had left before they needed to leave the house.