Kasey Allan of Clio and David Connell of Beulah are each facing one count of armed robbery, after robbing a Benzie County gas station at gunpoint. But According to local news, police officers said the robbery wasn’t really unexpected.

News reports say that two men showed up at the Honor Shell Gas Station in Benzie just after three o’clock Thursday morning, and robbed the station holding the clerk at gun point. Deputies say “hours before the armed robbery the two gunmen warned the cashier they were coming and gave her a detailed plan of the crime.”

Undersheriff Rory Heckman says, “They were planning on coming back with the weapon and they were going to rob her and wanted her to cooperate in exchange for money.”

They came back two hours later but they were in for a big surprise. After they left the station clerk called the police. Both deputies and troopers were outside the gas station waiting for them to come back.

A minute after they left the building officers stopped them.

Heckman says, “You have a gunman who says he has a B.B. gun, but who knows what he’s got. What do you do? You let them get outside and make the stop.”

Heckman says, “Obviously they were brazen enough to think they had her intimidated and that she’s on board. She was by herself she was obviously intimidated and scared. She did the right thing.”

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