Myrtle Beach police charged a 51-year-old man in connection with the robbery of a convenience store and stealing a canopy from Wal-Mart this month, according to police records.
Michael Anthony Ross, 51, of Myrtle Beach, was arrested about 6:45 p.m. Sunday at his home at 1207 Hemingway St., and charged with armed robbery, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, two counts of shoplifting and obtaining signature or property by false pretenses with a value under $2,000, according to police reports.
Ross is being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center on $24,000 bond on all the charges except the false pretense charge because bond has not been set, according to jail records.
The robbery charge stemmed from Saturday when Myrtle Beach police were called at 4 a.m. to the Scotchman located at 1274 21st Ave. N., for an attempted armed robbery, according to a police report. A 44-year-old woman told police she was mopping the restroom floor when a man came into the store, pointed a handgun at her and told her not to look at his face.
The woman said she was so scared she ran to the women’s bathroom and locked herself inside it, according to the report. The woman said the robber tried to get into the bathroom, but gave up and left.
Officers noted video surveillance showed the robber go into the store, walk behind the register to the medicine and point a handgun at the clerk when she walked over to him, according to the report. The clerk ran into the restroom and the robber tired to open the cash register, but couldn’t get it to open.
The shoplifting charge stemmed from a man taking a canopy from Wal-Mart and then returning it for a cash refund, according to a police report. Ross gave his name to the cashier when he returned the outdoor canopy, valued at $79.88, and the cashier identified a picture of him shown by police.
A loss prevention officer called police about 9 p.m. Jan. 22 to the store located at 541 Seaboard St., after an employee saw a man on video surveillance taking the canopy from a shelf, going to the store’s exit and then going over to customer service and returning it for cash. An employee tried to stop the man, but he walked out of the store and was not there when police arrived.
Details about the false pretense charge were not immediately available.
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