{"id":460007,"date":"2026-10-08T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460007\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:24:23","slug":"trackdown-man-steals-cash-newport-cigarettes-from-dallas-convenience-store-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460007\/","title":{"rendered":"Trackdown: Man steals cash, Newport cigarettes from Dallas convenience store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Police say on September 9, a suspect robbed Buy Low Discount Beer &amp; Wine in the 2900 block of south RL Thornton Freeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect held the store&#8217;s clerk at gunpoint and forced him to empty the cash register and supply of Newport cigarettes into a duffel bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have surveillance footage of the incident, but the suspect&#8217;s face is covered. They&#8217;re asking for the public to help identify the robber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DALLAS &#8211; A robbery suspect in Dallas took a convenience store&#8217;s cash and supply of Newport cigarettes during a September burglary, and police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying him.<\/p>\n<p>Buy Low Discount Beer &amp; Wine robbery<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/3b3815f181d293d3b04f4ccc83f0fb96.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On September 9, around 10:46 p.m., a suspect wearing all black clothes entered Buy Low Discount Beer &amp; Wine, located in the 2900 block of RL Thornton Freeway in Oak Cliff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video surveillance footage shows the suspect displaying a handgun towards the store&#8217;s clerk, who was working alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect orders the employee to empty the store&#8217;s cash register into a black duffel bag, which the clerk does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before leaving, the suspect ordered the employee to put Newport cigarettes from behind the counter into the duffel bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The store&#8217;s clerk described the suspect as a 5&#8217;7&#8243; black male.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The identity of the suspect is still not known. He is seen completely covered in surveillance footage from the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Police Det. Eduardo Lopez Villa tells FOX 4&#8217;s Shaun Rabb he believes the public can still help identify the suspect despite no visible facial features being seen in the surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We know the streets talk. We know people talk, and rumors go around,&#8221; Det. Lopez Villa said. &#8220;Any piece of information that can help us solve this case \u2014 because he&#8217;s done this before. You know, based on the way he did it, you know it&#8217;s not his first time, and he&#8217;s not going to stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Dallas Police Det. Eduardo Lopez Villa&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/f88ee2e92ab0b107f583680d4e7847f0.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dallas Police Det. Eduardo Lopez Villa<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He&#8217;s going to keep doing it, so help us get justice for this victim and hopefully prevent other victims from getting assaulted by this guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What you can do<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Police Det. John Brow is the lead investigator for this case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you have any information on who the robbery suspect is, contact Det. Brow at (214) 347-1591 or at <a data-ylk=\"slk:john.brow@dallaspolice.gov;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/john.brow@dallaspolice.gov\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">john.brow@dallaspolice.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/5c620b070ce38b05e87820ec905e5ea2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this story comes from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Dallas Police say on September 9, a suspect robbed Buy Low Discount Beer &amp; Wine in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-460007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}