EASLEY — A Fair Play man was arrested last week in connection with the early morning armed robbery of an Easley convenience store.
According to Pickens County assistant sheriff Tim Morgan, the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office was called on Thursday following an armed robbery at the Sav-A-Ton store located at 3790 Calhoun Memorial Highway.
Deputies say at approximately 7:15 a.m., a man entered the store and told the clerk, “I hate to do this, but you need to give me all the money in the register and wait five minutes before you call the cops.”
Deputies say the man had his right hand in the front pocket of a sweatshirt implying that he was pointing a pistol toward the clerk.
The man fled the scene driving a black 1995 Eddie Bauer Edition Ford F-150 extended cab pick-up truck with tan trim around the bottom.
The vehicle was not displaying a tag at the time of the incident. A The man was considered to be armed and dangerous.
Around 5 p.m. the same day, Robert Christopher Cisson, 31, of 120 Drummond Road in Fair Play was arrested in Travelers Rest, according to Morgan.