LAPLACE – Authorities arrested a Reserve man after he admitted he held up a Reserve convenience store with a plastic toy handgun, said a spokesman for the St. John Sheriff’s Office.
Maj. Mike Tregre, public information officer for the Sheriff’s Office, said Damion A. Dennis, 19, 248 Chad B. Baker St., Reserve, was taken into custody Friday afternoon at the same convenience store he allegedly robbed two days before. Tregre said the cashier behind the counter recognized Dennis as the gunman from the robbery.
 Damion Dennis |
Tregre said when Dennis, who is a regular customer of the store, returned to the store Friday, the cashier contacted police and said he may have been the robber. Deputies arrived and arrested Dennis inside the store.
During questioning with Sheriff’s investigators, Dennis confessed to the robbery and said he held up the store with a fake plastic gun. Authorities have yet to recover the toy gun or the cash taken from the store.
Dennis was booked into the Sherman Walker Correctional Facility on felony armed robbery charges. He is being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
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BRING IT BACK wrote on Dec 29, 2008 10:16 AM:
This criminal is a good example of what will grow up to be another hilson.
The community is not ready to forget the injustice of the hilson situation.
The community needs the failure of the judicial system in hilson's case to justify reform; if we don't learn from past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them. "
ARE YOU SURE wrote on Dec 27, 2008 10:01 AM:
If they never recovered the cash, maybe they split it or had a crack party. "
birdie wrote on Dec 26, 2008 4:22 PM:
When are these issues going to be addressed? Young men and boys walking around half-naked with their underwear showing (those that actually WEAR underwear), and then of course, the late model cars that are pimpmobiles that have so much bass that they disturb the dead (and the ones with external loudspeakers that want to make certain that EVERYONE can enjoy their choice of music.
The APATHY and INACTION behind resolving or at least curtailing the issues is REDICULOUS. I am quite certain that the more affluent areas on the eastern side of Belle Terre are not afflicted with these issues. My question is WHY? And more importantly, WHEN is something going to be done about it?? "
W T F wrote on Dec 24, 2008 12:13 PM:
I, unfortunately live about 50 yards from a car wash and the whole neighborhood sounds like a tarzan movie with drumming and f-word lyrics from boom-boxes going 24/7. Any complaints to the black deputies result in vandalism to my property because the deputies rat on the complainant rather than police the violators. This is typical of the racial favoritism shown to the young disrespectful offenders. "