''No-guns'' Sparkle Market employee beaten, robbed of night deposit

Several OFCC supporters have contacted us about an assault and robbery that occurred last evening as an employee of a "no-guns" grocery walked across the street to make a deposit at a nearby bank*.

From one OhioCCW.org news submission:

A Sparkle Market worker in Cornersburg (Youngstown), has become the victim of his own employer's policy. At approx. 9:30 pm on Monday, March 7, a Sparkle worker was taking the day's deposit 100 yards across the store parking lot to the Farmers National* bank next door, when, from a wooded area, a masked robber attacked and beat the worker taking more than 15,000 dollars.

Sparkle Supermarkets... [is a criminal protection zone]. It does not take a degree in criminology to deduct that the robber knew the person's routine, and cased his victim. And that he knew with very little doubt that his mark would not be armed.

The only mention of this incident from news media online thus far is a short transcript from Youngstown's WKBN.com 11 o'clock report.

Another OhioCCW.org news submission read as follows, and in part:

This is the only "no guns" grocery store in my area. They are unwaivering in their position. There are two of them and I am right between them. It USED to be my default store, but not since posting. They are in a very low crime area of the city. There has been notice in the community, even discussion at our block watch meetings, of the rise in crime at both stores. This one is the most surprising as it is in arguably the lowest crime area of the city.

Contact information for the many "no-guns" Sparkle Market locations, and other dangerous locations is available in OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database.

*NOTE: While reports have come in that certain branches of Farmers Bank are posted, multiple sources have now verified that the one originally described in this story apparently is not.