Ruby Tuesday gets robbed
A masked man robbed a North Augusta restaurant at gunpoint last week as employees were leaving.
According to Department of Public Safety reports, two workers had closed Ruby Tuesday restaurant on Knox Avenue just before 1 a.m. July 16 and were leaving when a man emerged from the bushes and demanded that they take him to the restaurant's money.
Inside the restaurant, the man forced them to turn off the alarm and fill a to-go bag with the money from the safe, cash drawer and deposits.
He placed their cell phones into the bag, containing more than $2,000, before locking them in a walk-in cooler, the police report stated. The workers pulled an alarm inside the cooler to alert police.
Officers believe the robber left in a vehicle that was parked behind Goodwill Industries, in the shopping center behind the restaurant.
The victims describe the robber as black, 5 feet, 10 inches to 6 feet tall, and weighing 180-200 pounds.
Man is accused of rape at apartment
Authorities have arrested an Augusta man accused of raping a woman and trying to rape another.
North Augusta Public Safety officers arrested Jared Utley Baxter, 29, of the 3700 block of Ridgecrest Drive, about 5:20 a.m. Thursday after Richmond County authorities pursued him on foot and by vehicle, according to a Richmond County Sheriff's Office news release.
A North Augusta officer caught Baxter on Interstate 20 near the 7-mile marker.
Baxter was being detained at the North Augusta Department of Public Safety on a peeping Tom charge from an incident early Thursday.
Richmond County authorities said they intend to charge Baxter with rape, kidnapping, three counts of burglary, and three counts of terroristic threats and acts stemming from incidents at two Augusta apartment complexes June 29, July 3 and July 14.
Police say he entered the apartments of three women on those dates and threatened to kill them if they screamed.
He is accused of rape in the July 3 incident.
Man charged with marijuana possession
An Aiken man driving a moped was arrested on his sixth drug charge last week.
Police stopped Marlin Boaz Landy, 24, of the 700 block of Washington Circle, for running a stop sign at Whitebark and Pisgah roads July 17.
Officers found a bag of marijuana in Landy's pocket and two tennis shoes full of the drug under the seat. They also found a set of scales.
Landy's driver's license has been suspended since 2003, and he did not have a moped license.
He is charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, sixth offense; possession with intent to distribute marijuana within a half-mile radius of a public school and park; driving with no moped license; and disregarding a stop sign.
