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Newark Police Investigates Armed Robbery Reported at Business

Newark

An armed robbery of a convenience store in the city's South Ward has police investigating.

Police were called to 490 Avon Avenue at around 9:30 a.m. to investigate a report of an armed robbery in progress.

Units arrived at the scene and set up a crime scene around the store as they began a search for two suspects who entered the establishment armed with a weapon and took an unknown amount of proceeds before fleeing the scene.

There were no physical injuries reported.

This is the second armed robbery of a convenience store on the Avon Avenue stretch in a week and the third in less than a month.

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