Robbers Hit ‘Lancaster Grannies’
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Sheriff’s deputies chased and arrested three men Wednesday who allegedly robbed a feed store owned by three sisters convicted last spring of failing to record sales of iodine crystals, authorities said.
The suspects, believed to be gang members, allegedly robbed $2,000 from the Granicy Feed Store on 20th Street East in Lancaster about 2:30 p.m. and fled in a station wagon.
The three men were booked on suspicion of attempted murder, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon and were being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
One of the three--Dejon Canada, 21, Laronnue Hickman, 22, and Bobby T. Simpson, 22--shot several rounds at one of the owners from outside, Sgt. Bill Sanders said.
The store, owned by sisters Armitta Mae Granicy, 60; Dorothy Jean Manning, 67; and Ramona Ann Beck, 62--who called themselves “the Lancaster grannies”--were given three years’ probation in June over records on the iodine crystals, which can be used to make methamphetamine.
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