SPD News Release – Divine Foodmart Robbery
At 8:56 pm on 12/1/09, Spokane Police Department Officers responded to a call of a Robbery at the Divine Foodmart at 1918 N. Hamilton.
The clerk reported that a male entered the store wearing a black puffy jacket, jeans, and a black ski mask with a skull or other similar white design on it. The male was armed with a black shotgun. The suspect did obtain some cash and then fled south to the alley and ran eastbound.
At the same time, a citizen one block to the east was watching a suspicious vehicle parked near the east end of this alley. The citizen saw a black male wearing the same coat and jeans come out of the alley, and then get in the passenger seat of the vehicle. The vehicle then left west on Baldwin. The vehicle was described as a red mid 1990’s Blazer or Bronco, possibly with a different colored rear cab.
Anyone with any information about the robbery is asked to call Crime Check at 456-2233.