Chesapeake police said today they believe a robbery of a children’s clothing store in Suffolk on Sunday is connected to a March 12 robbery of a teen boutique in Chesapeake.
Suffolk police today identified their suspect in the Sunday robbery at Karen’s for Kids as Albert Chevelle Thorne, 29, whose last known address was on Armstrong Street in Portsmouth.
Chesapeake police said they believe Thorne is also responsible for the robbery of the Funky Beat on Portsmouth Boulevard, said Christi Golden, a Chesapeake police spokeswoman.
Suffolk police have warrants charging him with armed robbery, abduction, aggravated assault and other charges related to the robbery at the children’s store, a police statement said. Chesapeake police are securing warrants.
Thorne is described as black, 5 feet 4 to 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 145 pounds. Police said he may be driving a kiwi-green Honda CR-V that was stolen.
A man went in Karen's for Kids, on North Main Street, on Sunday and chatted with a clerk, then pushed her into a storage area in the back and restrained her with duct tape, police said. He took $327 from the register, the clerk’s purse and some clothes. At the Funky Beat, police said, a man grabbed a clerk from behind, choked, shot her with a stun gun, dragged her into a bathroom and tied her up with plastic bags.
“We believe that Thorne may be responsible for other crimes in the area and we’d like to get him off of the streets before anyone else gets hurt,” Suffolk police Lt. Debbie George said in a statement.
Police asked that anyone with information about Thorne call Detective John McCarley at (757) 514-7942 or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Kristin Davis, (757) 222-5555, kristin.davis@pilotonline.com
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