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Verizon tips off Culpeper police to robbery suspect
Two alert Verizon employees provided police with information that led to the robbery arrest of a Culpeper man Friday afternoon.
Police charged Presley Owen Cubbage, 19, of the 14000 of Gen. Longstreet Avenue, with armed robbery.
About 1:45 p.m., two Verizon employees saw a male subject near a female, with a small child, behind Town Square near Old Brandy Road. When the telephone employees pulled up next to the 29-year-old woman and her two-year-old son, they noticed the woman was upset and crying. The woman told the Verizon employees that she just had been robbed at knifepoint by the man they saw standing near her.
The employees called the Culpeper Emergency Communications Center and drove through the parking lot, looking for the suspect who was wearing blue jeans, blue T-shirt and wearing a necklace.
They spotted the man nearby, later identified as Cubbage, but he ran away after they yelled at him to stop.
Based on the information from the Verizon witnesses, Officer Norma McGuckin spotted Cubbage near the park on Wine Street. Police later recovered a knife in the field behind Food Lion that was believed to have been the one used in the robbery.
The victim told police that she had been waiting for the bus but instead decided to walk home with her son. She said she heard footsteps approaching behind her. She was confronted by the man, who allegedly demanded money.
Police recovered an undisclosed amount of cash during the investigation.
“This is a perfect example of citizens working together with police,” said Capt. Ricky Pinksaw.
Cubbage remains in jail without bond. He is scheduled for arraignment in general district court at 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, June 16.
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