Montgomery County deputies are investigating a reported aggravated robbery that took place at a local Kroger Thursday morning.
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The report came in around 8:50 a.m. at the Kroger on W. Siebenthaler Avenue in Harrison Twp, according to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch.
A security worker at the store told dispatchers that someone had a clerk at gunpoint.
A person, described as a male, entered the store, approached the pharmacy counter, and allegedly demanded narcotics from the employee.
The male then allegedly threatened the employee with a gun and hit the employee in the face with it, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
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He then ran from the scene with an “undisclosed amount of narcotics.”
The employee sustained minor injuries during the incident. No other injuries were reported.
A person of interest in the aggravated robbery was taken into custody Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office confirmed to News Center 7.
As shown on News Center 7 at 6:00, our crew was there as a detective and a deputy walked that man from the Sheriff’s Office in Downtown Dayton across the street to the Montgomery County Jail.
News Center 7 reached out to Kroger about the incident. A spokesperson confirmed that while the store reopened after the incident, the pharmacy remained closed for the day.