{"id":138259,"date":"2026-03-14T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138259\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:38:10","slug":"2-men-charged-in-armed-robbery-at-tobacco-store-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138259\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men charged in armed robbery at tobacco store \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 14. 2026 09:17AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Two Berks County men were sent to prison on charges related to the Dec. 15 robbery of a store in Rush Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Garicin Moore, 40, of Bernville, was committed to the Berks County Prison on $200,000 cash bail following his arraignment this week before Magisterial District Judge Stephen Bayer of Tamaqua. Moore had been in the Berks prison on other charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">His alleged accomplice, Ashton Dinkel, 36, of Bernville, was charged with robbery and sent to the Schuylkill County Prison on $50,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">According to state police, troopers were called to Sam\u2019s Place Lottery and Tobacco at the Hometown Commons shopping center at 9:24 p.m. for a robbery. Police said a man pulled a gun and asked the clerk to empty the cash register. The man fled on Route 309 with $2,914.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Police determined that Moore robbed the store while Dinkel served as the getaway driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Police charged Moore with robbery-threat of serious injury; robbery-take property; aggravated assault with deadly weapon; theft by unlawful taking; firearms not to be carried without license; possession of weapon; and simple assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 14. 2026 09:17AM Two Berks County men were sent to prison on charges related to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-138259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}