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Strong Family Values

After two armed robberies of a CVS store in Potomac, Md., within a week, police wondered if it might be an inside job — store supervisor Fenton Graham, 35, was the victim both times. They pulled tapes from the store’s surveillance cameras and saw that in the second robbery, the gunman forgot the bag of cash as he fled — and Graham ran out to take it to him. Police have identified the robber as Michael Cooke, 53 — Graham’s girlfriend’s father. The girlfriend, Michelle Allison, 29, has also been arrested. (RC/Washington Post) ...Three masterminds, and none of them thought of the security cameras.
Original Publication Date: 22 April 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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