Investigators said they left with more than $1,000 in store merchandise.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete police are searching for two masked robbery suspects caught on surveillance video pepper-spraying sales clerks at a local CVS.<\/p>\n
Officers said this happened around 11:45 p.m. Monday when two people seen in footage entered a CVS store in the area of Third Street South wearing masks before one of them went behind the counter and pushed the sales clerk.<\/p>\n
The second suspect is shown spraying the clerk in the face with a substance officials believe to be pepper spray.<\/p>\n
Police said a second CVS clerk tried to intervene and stop the two, but was also pepper-sprayed.<\/p>\n
The two masked individuals were last seen in the footage running out the store. Investigators said they left with more than $1,000 in store merchandise.<\/p>\n
SPPD described the suspects as possibly being in their 20s, with long, black braids and both wearing blue surgical masks.<\/p>\n
The one who physically pushed the clerk was reportedly wearing a long-sleeved grey sweatshirt, black joggers with white stripes, and tan Ugg-style boots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second robber, who detectives said sprayed the clerks, wore a long-sleeved white top with small, red hearts, black joggers and sandals.<\/p>\n
Officials explain this is the third store these suspects have robbed in St. Pete since Dec. 1, and also believe they are involved in a series of robberies at other stores across the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this robbery is asked to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780 or text your tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators said they left with more than $1,000 in store merchandise. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-109028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}