Armed robbery with staple gun at Athens convenience store

By Joe Johnson

An Athens man is facing an armed robbery charge for holding an up an Athens convenience store clerk while using a staple gun as his weapon.

According to court records, the incident happened in August at the Citgo Food Mart on Hawthorne Avenue where 45-year-old Arthur Russell Suber of Sycamore Drive went behind the counter and forced the clerk “upon the threat of death,” to open the cash register from which he then stole $700.

The 27-year-old clerk didn’t know what type of weapon had been pointed at him, but police determined from surveillance footage that it had been a staple gun.

Suber was arrested several days later and on October 7th a grand jury indicted him on charges of armed robbery, aggravated assault, and two counts of obstruction of law enforcement,

An arraignment is scheduled for December 16th.