Cameras capture large cigarette heist at Poplar gas station

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police are looking for two men who roughed up a clerk at a gas station in East Memphis and left with a large container full of cigarettes.

The robbery happened just before 8 a.m. on March 29 at the Kroger Fuel Center at 761 Truse Parkway just off Poplar Avenue.

Store surveillance video shows two males entering the business, and the first suspect jumped over the counter and then forcefully pushed the clerk from in front of the storage room door, and then made threats to them not to move.

The second suspect is seen watching the clerk while the first suspect grabs a large quantity of cigarettes from the storage room…

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