Police are investigating an armed robbery at Food Bag in Southington on Monday morning and said Middletown police arrested two suspects and found items taken during the robbery.
Police responded to the Food Bag at 960 Meriden Waterbury Road in Southington just before 3 a.m. Monday to investigate an armed robbery and learned that a man who had a knife went into the store, got behind the register, had the clerk open it and grabbed cash, police said.
The robber ran off with $114 in cash and two boxes of Newport cigarettes, according to police who shared information about the robbery with other area towns.
One of the bills the man took was kept in the register as a security measure with the serial number and a copy of the bill on file in the store, police said.
A Middletown Police Officer stopped a vehicle. Southington police said 60-year-old Franklin Brown, of Middletown, is suspected in the robbery and 43-year-old Shawn Mullaly, of Cromwell, was driving the car.
A knife was found on the floor of the vehicle.
Cash was on front passenger seat floor and police found the recorded security bill with it, as well as a camouflage mask similar to the one used in the Food Bag robbery, police said.
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Mullaly was charged with second-degree robbery, sixth-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny in the sixth-degree, second-degree breach of peace and threatening in the second degree.
Brown was charged with sixth-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit robbery in the sixth.
Both men were held on a $50,000 bond and are scheduled to appear in Bristol Court today.
