Teen charged in robbery; more arrests called likely

Published 6:00 am Thursday, December 2, 2004

A 17-year-old will be charged as an adult in the armed robberyof a Brookway Boulevard convenience store last week, saidBrookhaven Police Department Investigator Roger Wilson. Morearrests are pending.

Timothy Bryan Populis, 17, of 1022 Hwy. 48, Magnolia, wasarrested by the Pike County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday night andtransported to the Lincoln County Jail early Wednesday morning.

He was questioned by Wilson and Assistant Police Chief NolanJones before being charged in the early morning armed robbery ofthe Blue Sky convenience store.

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Populis can be charged as an adult because armed robbery is afelony, Wilson said.

“There are more arrests forthcoming. We have more warrantsissued. Hopefully, the other arrests will be made this weekend,” hesaid.

Wilson said he could not elaborate on Populis’s role in therobbery until other arrests had been made.

No one was injured in the robbery, in which an undisclosedamount of cash was taken.

According to Wilson, the night clerk left the building justafter 2 a.m. and was confronted by two white men who emerged fromaround the corner of the building. The first man displayed a rifleand prompted the clerk to enter the store with him while the secondman stayed outside.

The clerk cooperated and the men left, Wilson said.

Investigators were given a good physical description of bothrobbers, he said.