RANDOLPH — The Barn convenience store was robbed early Saturday morning, according to Vermont State Police, the second time the convenience store and Mobil gas station at Exit 4 off Interstate 89 has been robbed in the early morning hours in the past 12 days.
A man entered the store at 3:17 a.m. on Oct. 1 and demanded money from the store clerk and then left the scene, State Police said in a news release on Saturday. No one was injured in the robbery, police said.
Similarly, the Barn convenience store was robbed on Sept. 19 when a man entered the store at 4:30 a.m. and threatened the cashier before fleeing with money, State Police reported last month. No one was injured in that robbery, either, police said.
“Both robberies are under investigation. We are currently looking into if these robberies are connected,” Detective Trooper Kelsey Knapp of the VSP’s Royalton barracks said via email on Monday. In neither robbery was a weapon brandished, she said.
The Barn is owned and operated by Lebanon-based Summit Distributing, which operates convenience stores around northern New England, including The Station in White River Junction, Sugar River Store in Newport and the Applegreen 711 in Fairlee.
“We are relieved that no one was injured in either incident and that our policies around very low amounts of cash on hand worked,” said Tom Frawley, president of Summit Distributing via email on Monday. “That alone discourages repeats of these incidents,” he said.