Two robberies, one hit-and-run in Ozark

OZARK — Ozark police are searching for two men involved in two unrelated robberies in the city between Friday and Monday.

On Monday, a man wearing a ski mask went into Riley’s convenience store on Logan Road around 11 a.m. and told the clerk he had a gun, Ozark Deputy Police Chief Myron Williams said. The man then fled behind the store with an undisclosed amount of money.

Williams said state Department of Corrections tracking dogs were used to track down a suspect, but no arrests had been made as of 5:40 p.m. Monday.

In another case Friday, Williams said a man walked out of New Fashions, across from Dale County Courthouse, around 9:30 a.m. after taking a shirt and pair of pants.

When the business owner ran to confiscate the items from the man, Williams said the man sped off in a white S-10 pickup truck, hitting the owner with the vehicle’s door.

The owner was treated and released from Dale Medical Center, Williams said.

The two robberies are believed to be unrelated because the suspect in one is black and in the other is white.