On May 5, two men with watermelons on their heads pulled up to a Sheetz store in Louisa, Virginia, in a stolen 2006 black Toyota Tacoma pickup truck and robbed the place. The disguise worked, and the two men managed to elude police for nearly two weeks.
However recently, one of the suspects, identified as Justin Rogers, was taken into custody and charged with wearing a mask in public while committing larceny, underage possession of alcohol, and petit larceny of alcohol. Rogers was 20 years old when the crime was committed.
Authorities are still looking for the second suspect.
A customer who witnessed the crime told WIRC that he wasn't shocked by the fact that two men hollowed out watermelons to mask their identities while robbing the store.
"I definitely give them some points for ingenuity. In a time like this, you could've worn any kind of mask, but to come up with a watermelon," Brian Welch said. "But it wasn't super shocking being out here in Louisa. We've always had some crazy new stories going around."
Photo: Louisa Police Department