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Police are looking for a man who displayed a firearm when he robbed a Hedgesville, W.Va., area business Thursday afternoon. The suspect, a white male, is approximately 6 feet tall and weights about 200 pounds, West Virginia State Police said Friday in a news release. The robber was wearing a purple T-shirt, camouflage pants, white running shoes, and a white fitted hat when he entered Mushroom Tobacco and Gifts at 147 Roaring Lion Drive and demanded money from a business employee, troopers said.

Washington Township, Pa., police on Monday released a photograph from a July 9 armed robbery at the Blue Ridge Food Mart at 15010 Buchanan Trail East. Police said they are searching for a male suspect, but did not release a description. Previously, police said the man fired a gun during the 11:25 p.m. robbery. A clerk was treated at a hospital for minor injuries and released. Anyone with information about the incident may call police at 717-762-1447.

Antonio Prophet testified Thursday in Berkeley County Circuit Court that two armed men, one with a gun and the other with a knife, were responsible for the June 2010 deaths of Angela Devonshire and her 3-year-old son, for which he is on trial. Prophet, 36, of Lorton, Va., was indicted in February 2011 on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson in the deaths of Devonshire, 22, of Bunker Hill, W.Va., and her son, Andre White. Their bodies were found the morning of June 6, 2010, in the charred remains of her Cape Cod-style apartment, which was intentionally set on fire, according to an assistant state fire marshal.

A warrant has been issued charging a Maryland man with the February robbery of Walgreens pharmacy in Martinsburg, according to a Martinsburg Police Department news release. Robert O. Bottenfield, 24, of Gaithersburg, Md., is being held at the Montgomery County (Md.) Detention Center in Rockville, Md., where he has been charged with armed robbery, according to Martinsburg police and court records. Maryland authorities told police in Martinsburg that Bottenfield confessed to multiple pharmacy robberies, including the one at Walgreens at 101 Forbes Drive, police said.

One of three men accused in a December gas station robbery could face 25 years in prison after entering into a plea agreement Monday in Washington County Circuit Court. Assistant State's Attorney Gina Cirincion told Circuit Judge M. Kenneth Long Jr. that the state is asking for a 25-year sentence for Neo Pelayo Torrez, 31, formerly of 117 Ray St. Torrez pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery Monday in a Dec. 16 holdup at United Petroleum, 890 Pennsylvania Ave. Defense attorney Bernard W. Semler II was granted a request for a presentence investigation before sentencing.

A former Hagerstown man wanted in a 2011 armed robbery was arrested this week on drug charges by the Washington County Narcotics Task Force, according to District Court records. Dwight Orin Lewis Jr., 35, whose address was listed as 5708 Montgomery Church Road, Greencastle, Pa., was charged Tuesday with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and Diazepam, criminal conspiracy to distribute and possession, court records said. Lewis also was wanted on armed robbery charges in an incident on Sept.

Nathaniel Laye, a sophomore at Smithsburg High School, was selected as one of the 150 buglers and trumpeters to play at Arlington National Cemetery on Armed Forces Day on May 19. His name was submitted by Chip Stickler of Hagerstown, who teaches Nathaniel trumpet, guitar and drums. Taps 150, Bugles Across America and Arlington National Cemetery joined together to commemorate the 150th anniversary of taps, the nation's song of remembrance with a formal ceremony at Arlington.

Three men and a woman, all from Frederick, have been charged in a stabbing and armed robbery Monday morning at the Motel 6 on Massey Boulevard in Hagerstown, according to a statement of probable cause filed by the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Tony Anthony Jones, 23, of 1153 Orchard Terrace is charged with attempted second-degree murder and multiple counts of armed robbery, robbery and criminal conspiracy, along with single counts of first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.

City  police are investigating an armed robbery Wednesday morning by a well-dressed man at Club 313 in Martinsburg.  An employee said a man entered the business at 930 Foxcroft Ave. at about 7:15 a.m. and sat down briefly before following the employee to a back room, police said. The man then pulled a handgun. The employee fought with him briefly before being subdued and bound with a zip tie by the assailant, police said. The man then took an undisclosed amount of money and left by the front door, police said.

Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies were investigating an armed robbery Sunday night at the Dollar General store at 415 S. Conococheague St. in Williamsport, according to a Washington County 911 spokeswoman. The robbery was reported at 9:10 p.m. and officers stopped someone, but they determined it was not the person who committed the crime, a sheriff's office spokesman said. The robber, who was dressed in a gray hoodie with a ski mask, pulled a gun in the store and stole money out of a cash drawer, the spokesman said.