UNION COUNTY, NC. (THECOUNT) — Deputies are searching for a teenager accused of robbing a 9-year-old’s lemonade stand at gunpoint in a North Carolina neighborhood.
The Union County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday that the stickup happened near a traffic roundabout in Monroe.
Deputies say the young drink vendor reported that a male teenager with a camouflage hat and black shirt placed a black handgun to the boy’s stomach Saturday, demanded money and then fled on foot. source
Sheriff’s spokesman Tony Underwood said less than $20 in cash was stolen.
Authorities found a camouflage hat, a black BB handgun and a stolen metal tin in some nearby woods. Deputies believe the teen left a bicycle in the brush for his getaway and walked to the lemonade stand.
Anyone with information on the incident may contact police at 911.
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