A 72-year-old transient man has been arrested after robbing a Florida Walmart employee at knifepoint and getting away with her credit cards.
On Thursday, just before 8 a.m., Hernando County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Walmart Supercenter, located at 13300 Cortez Boulevard in Brooksville regarding an Armed Robbery.
The victim, an adult female, Walmart employee, told deputies that while on her break, she was sitting in the driver’s seat of her vehicle in the parking lot when a male casually approached her and demanded her purse, cash, credit cards and any PINs associated with the cards.
As the suspect, later identified as 72-year-old Terry Wayne Leonard, aka/Terrence Wayne Lemmon, made demands, he pointed a long fixed-blade knife at the victim.
The victim complied, giving the suspect all the items he demanded. Before walking away, the suspect forcefully grabbed the victim’s cell phone from her hands and took it with him.
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Immediately following the incident, the victim ran to two nearby customers and told them what happened.
As the suspect fled the scene, the two customers ran toward the suspect’s vehicle and obtained a tag number. The suspect was last seen traveling eastbound on Cortez Boulevard.
The victim thoroughly described the suspect and his vehicle to deputies.
A manager at Walmart provided video footage of the incident. The footage corroborated the victim’s description of the event.
The victim’s cell phone was located a short distance away from the scene. The screen was smashed as if the phone had been thrown from a moving vehicle.
Deputies issued a BOLO for the suspect vehicle.
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Detectives located the suspect vehicle in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located at 13179 Cortez Boulevard in Brooksville. Detectives contacted the driver, Leonard, and placed him into custody.
Leonard refused to identify himself.
Detectives located a wallet in Leonard’s pocket. Inside the wallet were two credit cards belonging to the victim.
Detectives also located the knife, which the victim had described, and the blue medical face mask worn by the suspect during the Robbery inside the suspect’s vehicle.
After being positively identified by the victim, Leonard was transported to the Hernando County Detention Center. His vehicle was towed from the scene.
Terry Wayne Leonard (aka/Terrence Wayne Lemmon) was charged with armed robbery and fraudulent us of a credit card.
“Due to the severity of the crime, and the fact the suspect is a transient, detectives requested he be held on a no bond status,” said HCSO.
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