INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, MI \u2014 Police are investigating a Tuesday night armed robbery in Oakland County.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at 10:44 p.m. at the Jimmy John’s located at 5601 Sashabaw Road in Independence Township, according to sheriff’s officials.<\/p>\n
Officials said a man smashed through a glass rear door and confronted two store employees with a handgun. <\/p>\n
He demanded access to the safe, but the 21-year-old Grand Blanc Township woman and 19-year-old Clarkston woman told him they don’t have access to the safe, officials said.<\/p>\n
He then ordered both women to place their purses on the counter, officials said.<\/p>\n
The man took both purses and ran out through the rear door on foot, officials said.<\/p>\n
Officers quickly established a perimeter in the area with a K-9 unit and drones, but could not find the man.<\/p>\n
Investigators only described the man as wearing a mask, black hooded sweatshirt and black shoes. They did not release any other details about the man.<\/p>\n
Officials ask anyone with information about the robbery to call the County Sheriff’s Office Independence Township Substation at 248-620-4968, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAKUP.<\/p>\n
Tipsters remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, MI \u2014 Police are investigating a Tuesday night armed robbery in Oakland County. The incident happened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-345309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}