Teen arrested in robberies

Published 11:14 pm Saturday, July 5, 2014

Suffolk police have arrested a 15-year-old boy accused of robbing two North Suffolk businesses on Saturday.

Dispatchers received a call at 3:37 p.m. Saturday notifying them of a robbery at the Subway Restaurant at 6550 Hampton Roads Parkway, where a man had left the scene with an undisclosed amount of money.

Upon arriving at the scene of the Subway call five minutes later, an officer encountered a suspect leaving the Food Lion in the same shopping center, where he allegedly had just committed an additional robbery, receiving an undisclosed amount of money.

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No injuries were reported in either incident, and the suspect was detained without incident, according to a city spokesman.