NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
June 16, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
OCSO ARRESTS MAN SUSPECTED IN TWO ROBBERIES
The Okaloosa
County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man suspected of holding up two local
stores in the past week.
29-year
old Larry Dewayne Fountain is charged with the armed robbery of the Ritz Store
at 659 Beal Parkway around 5 a.m. June 15th. Investigators say
Fountain was armed with a knife when he entered the store, struggled with the
clerk and then grabbed the cash register drawer.
He is also
accused of holding up the Tom Thumb at 1605 Florence Avenue around 1:40 a.m.
June 10th.