Second armed strike at Christian bookstore Print
Sunday, 17 June 2007 08:00 PM America/New_York

A Christian bookstore in Scottsdale, Ariz., was the target of an armed robber for the second time in four months.

Wearing a long black wig and dark glasses, a man demanded cash from the clerk at Jesus Chapel Discount Book Store, telling her, "Do as I say and you're not going to get hurt," owner Jacob Stanton told the (Phoenix) East Valley Tribune.

The robber was "a little more brazen this time," Stanton told the newspaper. The store had been busy with Father's Day shoppers when the man struck last Tuesday. He got away with several hundred dollars.

In February a man who entered the store and told Stanton's father, Daniel Stanton, that he had a gun fled empty handed after Stanton's father slammed the cash register drawer on the would-be robber's hand.

The latest incident "just kind of saddens us," Stanton told the Tribune"It's very disheartening." A man has been arrested in connection with the latest robbery, the newspaper said.