MT. SELMAN \u2014 Authorities in Cherokee County are on the hunt for a robbery suspect. On Tuesday at approximately 5:15 a.m., the HotSpot convenience store on Highway 69 in Mt. Selman was robbed by an individual wielding a large knife. The suspect was wearing a black shirt, jeans, brown Carhartt style jacket and an open face ski mask with a brim. The suspect entered the north side door, threatened the clerk with the knife, then handed him a pillow case and demanded the money from the cash register and all the packages of K-2 from the display. While the clerk was gathering the K-2, the suspect entered the area behind the counter and removed several cartons of cigarettes.<\/p>\n
Prior to leaving the store, the suspect also demanded the clerk\u2019s cell phone and instructed him to pull the battery out; saying that he would leave the battery next to the trash can on the way out. The suspect fled on foot as a customer was pulling into the parking lot, and ran in a northeasterly direction toward Farm Road 177. The suspect is described only as a white male, possibly about 6 ft. tall, thin to medium build. Cherokee County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest \/ conviction of the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MT. SELMAN \u2014 Authorities in Cherokee County are on the hunt for a robbery suspect. On Tuesday at approximately 5:15 a.m., the HotSpot convenience store on Highway 69 in Mt. Selman was robbed by an individual wielding a large knife. The suspect was wearing a black shirt, jeans, brown Carhartt style jacket and an open … Continue reading Authorities Seek Robbery Suspect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:49:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82300"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82640,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82300\/revisions\/82640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}