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Oakfield Crime

Two arrested in Oakfield robbery

By WBTA News

Two Oakfield men remain behind county bars this morning charged with holding up a convenience store. Tyler Penepent and Justin Smith, both 21, are each charged with a felony count of robbery in the first degree.

Deputies say the two walked into the 7–11 store on Main Street in Oakfield about 2:30 yesterday morning wearing ski masks.
They confronted the clerk and demanded the code to the cash register. They took off with an undetermined amount of cash.

The clerk was not injured.

Penepent and Smith are jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail.

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