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Can you identify armed robbery suspect?

Police are looking for this man, who they believe robbed a Middletown Advance America cash advance store at 4:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21, showing a gun. Investigators need help identifying the man seen here in the store two hours prior to the robbery.

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By Danielle Wilson, Staff Writer Updated 7:48 PM Wednesday, August 26, 2009

MIDDLETOWN — Police released a surveillance video image Wednesday, Aug. 26, to ask the public for help identifying a man who last week robbed Advance America Cash Advance at gunpoint.

The suspect at 4:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21, held up the business at 4778 Roosevelt Blvd., by pointing a black semi-automatic handgun to a clerk’s face. He demanded cash and told the clerk to get down on the floor, according to police.

The suspect — described as a white male in his mid-30s wearing a white baseball cap, white shirt and blue jeans — left the store in an unknown direction with an undetermined amount of money, said Middletown police Detective Mark Specht.

The female clerk was alone in the store when the robbery occurred, but was not injured.

She told police the man had been in the store about two hours prior to the robbery, and returned to commit the crime.

Upon police arrival, officers set up a perimeter around the store, but no one was able to locate the man. A police canine had an unsuccessful track as investigators attempted to collect evidence from the scene.

Detectives have obtained surveillance photos from the man’s first visit to the store that day.

Anyone who recognizes the man or has information is asked to call Specht at (513) 425-7737.

Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2511 or dwilson@coxohio.com.

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