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Uniontown man accused of armed robbery
A Fayette County man is in jail, accused by police of robbing a convenience store at knifepoint with an elastic bandage over his face.([link widoczny dla zalogowanych])
Jonathon Anthony Thomas, 25, of 183 S. Mt. Vernon Ave., Uniontown, is charged by state police at Uniontown with robbery, reckless endangerment, possessing instruments of crime,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], theft and simple assault.
In a police affidavit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Trooper Kiprian Yarosh said Thomas entered the Dairy Mart at 22 Dixon Blvd. at 11:45 p.m. Monday, put a knife to a customer's throat and demanded cash.
"This subject entered the store stating, 'Stick 'em up, don't make any sudden moves,' as he grabbed a patron from behind, around the neck, placing the knife edge near his throat," Yarosh wrote in the affidavit. "This subject demanded all the money and then asked for the money out of the safe."
When the clerk told Thomas she could not access the safe, Thomas fled on foot with $127 in cash, three cartons of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and some loose packs of cigarettes, according to the affidavit.([link widoczny dla zalogowanych])
The clerk and three customers told police the robber had an Ace brand elastic bandage covering his nose and mouth. He wore latex gloves, dark sunglasses,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a knit cap and a white, hooded sweatshirt.
Yarosh said a Uniontown police officer, Michael Bittner, stopped Thomas 30 minutes after the robbery. Thomas told police he had just left his girlfriend's house.
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Menthol cigarettes make up about 30 percent of industry sales. Lorillard -- not the only tobacco company against a menthol ban -- makes Newport, the leading brand. Newport menthols have driven an increase in the company's market share,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], from 9 percent in 2001 to 13 percent in the third quarter of 2010, even as overall domestic cigarette sales declined.
Since Newport menthols make up the vast majority of Lorillard cigarette sales, the company may fear a "doomsday scenario if menthol gets banned and they can't keep a majority of their customers," according to Philip Gorham, an analyst with Morningstar, Inc.
The FDA was given the authority by Congress to regulate tobacco in legislation passed in 2009. Although the law specifically outlawed flavorings such as candy, spice and fruit, which might be especially appealing to youth,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it left it to the FDA to assess whether menthol flavoring should remain legal.
An FDA advisory committee,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, will make its recommendations on menthol in March. The agency may recommend responses less stringent than a ban, such as restrictions on advertising.
Jonathon Anthony Thomas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 25,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of 183 S. Mt. Vernon Ave., Uniontown, is charged by state police at Uniontown with robbery,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], reckless endangerment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], possessing instruments of crime, theft and simple assault.
In a police affidavit, Trooper Kiprian Yarosh said Thomas entered the Dairy Mart at 22 Dixon Blvd. at 11:45 p.m. Monday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], put a knife to a customer's throat and demanded cash.
"This subject entered the store stating,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Stick 'em up, don't make any sudden moves,' as he grabbed a patron from behind,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], around the neck, placing the knife edge near his throat," Yarosh wrote in the affidavit. "This subject demanded all the money and then asked for the money out of the safe."
When the clerk told Thomas she could not access the safe, Thomas fled on foot with $127 in cash, three cartons of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and some loose packs of cigarettes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to the affidavit.([link widoczny dla zalogowanych])
The clerk and three customers told police the robber had an Ace brand elastic bandage covering his nose and mouth. He wore latex gloves,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], dark sunglasses, a knit cap and a white, hooded sweatshirt.
Yarosh said a Uniontown police officer, Michael Bittner,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], stopped Thomas 30 minutes after the robbery. Thomas told police he had just left his girlfriend's house.
NJNP Photo/Scott LituchyA billboard for [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] stands by Route 21 in Newark.
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([link widoczny dla zalogowanych]) And it continues today. Lorillard, which makes Newport — the country’s most popular brand of menthol cigarettes — is engaged in an all-out war to prevent the feds from banning menthol cigarettes.
The company has already bought up Internet domain names like MentholKillsMinorities.com,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in an effort to preempt health advocates. Even sneakier is its use of an African-American public-relations consultant, Charlotte Roy. Her firm is paid by Lorillard, but she doesn’t feel a need to mention that when she contacts media outlets, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Roy arranged for Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to speak out against a menthol ban. He told Chicago radio listeners it could result in an underground market and would be “taking away a legal preference and choice for African Americans.”
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About 75 percent of black smokers use menthol brands, heavily advertised in black communities. African-Americans smoke fewer cigarettes than whites, but have higher rates of lung cancer and other tobacco-related diseases.([link widoczny dla zalogowanych])
With a brazen slogan like “Alive with pleasure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” it’s not hard to believe Newport would fight this life-saving ban with lies.
When police went to the girlfriend's house on MacArthur Terrace in Uniontown, they obtained a search warrant for the residence after noticing two cartons of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and an Ace bandage in plain view,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Yarosh said.
Police said tax stamp numerals on the cigarette cartons, as well as on a pack of cigarettes they found in Thomas' possession, matched those of the stolen cigarettes.
A woman who lived at the MacArthur residence told police she has latex gloves "and her children love to blow them up like balloons," but they were missing. She told police a kitchen knife that matched the description of the robbery weapon was missing.
Thomas was arraigned before Uniontown District Judge Michael Metros and placed in the Fayette County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bond. He faces a preliminary hearing before South Union District Judge Joseph George.([link widoczny dla zalogowanych])