The Farmer’s Supply Co. near Holly Hill was robbed early Monday, and two individuals are in custody after a brief search, according to a storekeeper.

Everette “Cap” West said that at around 7 a.m. when the Providence-based store opened, two individuals believed to be teenagers attacked him.

“It happened so fast, I don’t know what all happened,” West said. “They said they’d been waiting on me” to open the business.

West said one individual grabbed him around the neck and began tying him up while the other man took money from the register and West himself.

The pair then fled. But West said investigators told him the pair were later arrested.

In unrelated reports:



* A Neeses woman’s truck has been entered into NCIC after telling police a strange tale last week.

The woman said that on May 4, she discovered her 2003 Ford Expedition missing from her property. A relative told her that the woman’s husband took the truck but crashed it into a tree on Middlepen Road. He later went back to the truck but the only thing there beside the tree was the front bumper, the incident report stated.

Deputies checked, but neither the Sheriff’s Office nor the Highway Patrol had towed the $9,300 vehicle.

* A Eutawville woman notified deputies early Friday after realizing someone had made off with a car and a quantity of automotive tools.

The woman said that at around 10:21 a.m., she noticed her 1991 Honda, car tools, a floor jack and a battery were missing.

Deputies believe someone broke through a window to gain access to the storage property that contained the $6,000 worth of automotive items.

* The American Legion facility in Bowman has become one of the latest victims of copper theft.

On Saturday, a member contacted law enforcement after discovering someone had come onto the property and removed a copper coil assembly from the air-conditioning unit.

Estimates to repair and replace the parts place the damage at about $1,750.

* An Orangeburg woman’s minivan was reported missing after it was left at a Russell Street location Friday.

The woman said her son left her 1999 Dodge Caravan in a parking lot on lower Russell Street around 2 a.m. The woman said he was too drunk to drive home so a friend gave him a lift.

When she returned to the parking lot at around 7:30 a.m., the $7,000 vehicle was gone, she reported.

* A Columbia Road business called police Saturday after receiving two counterfeit $100 bills in payment.

The manager of Dollar General said that shortly after 10 a.m., two fake $100 bills were taken in by a clerk.

The clerk said a black man and woman entered the business and split up. The man later approached the counter and paid for items with a $100 bill. He then left, the clerk reported.

But the man returned and repeated his actions, paying for items with another $100 and keeping the change.

The clerk said she did not have a counterfeit pen to test the bills.

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