The Knox County Sheriff’s Office arrested three suspects Wednesday night wanted for robbing two Knox County convenience stores and four in the city.  Charged with aggravated robbery are 27 year old Robert Cheek, 27 year old Dustin Jones, and 22 year old Jeremy Gordon.  Charges are pending with the city.  All three live at Deane Hill Apartments.  They are accused of robbing the Pilot on Middlebrook Wednesday morning and the Weigel’s on Ebenezer Tuesday night.  Two of the suspects have admitted their involvement in the robberies.

They were apprehended shortly before midnight when a KCSO patrol officer spotted a Ford Escort parked at the Weigel’s on Ebenezer which had been robbed on Tuesday night.  The car matched the description given including the right taillight which was out.  The officer followed the car to Cross Park at Cedar Bluff where he made a traffic stop.  All three suspects were in the car and taken into custody without incident.  Officers found the bandanas, hats, mirrored sunglasses, a BB gun, the blue latex gloves, and clothing used in the robberies.  A search of their apartment turned up more clothing worn during the crimes and the cigarettes stolen from the Pilot. 

All three have criminal histories including theft, burglary, and drug charges.

The Knox County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a suspect who may be responsible for two armed robberies at two West Knox County convenience stores.  The first store robbed was the Weigel’s at 600 Ebenezer Road at 11 p.m. Tuesday.  A black male wearing white ski gloves, white tennis shoes and a black toboggan held up a clerk with a black semi automatic gun and got away with money from the cash register.  No one was hurt during the incident.

The second armed robbery occurred Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock at the Pilot on Middlebrook and Joe Hinton Road.  A black male wearing blue latex gloves, a blue bandana over his face, a black bucket hat with a ponytail,  mirrored sun glasses, gray and white velcro shoes and brandishing a black semi automatic gun, accosted two employees in the parking lot as they were cleaning and ordered them back into the store.  He demanded two cartons of cigarettes and money from the register and after getting them, left on foot.

Meanwhile, an employee at the nearby McDonald’s saw the suspect leave the Pilot and watched him get into the passenger side of a dark blue Ford Escort in the McDonald’s parking lot and head for downtown Knoxville.  The witness said the car’s right taillight was out.

Anyone with information is asked to call the KCSO at 215-2243.