South Carolina Payday Loan Store Robbed

Cross-country crime

For a while, all was quiet on the “payday loan store robbery” front. However, yesterday I got reports of two robberies — in different states.

The first, in which a payday loan store in South Carolina was robbed, fit the regular description of a payday loan store robbery. However, a story out of California had a very different ending.

South Carolina robbery

Here is a press release from a news outlet in South Carolina on the robbery that occurred there:

LONGS, SC (WMBF) - Two men walked into a Quick Cash Advance in Longs Thursday and robbed it at gunpoint, according to Horry County Police.

The store at 3373 Hwy. 9 was hit shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday. Witnesses said two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, entered the store and demanded money from the clerk. The suspects fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

The case remains under investigation.

Crazy in California

I chose to just post the press release on that South Carolina robbery because it reads like pretty much every other payday loan store robbery. I could change just the location, store name and date and it would still be a perfectly accurate reflection of several other incidents.

However, things got shaken up a little in California yesterday when a payday loan store robber did more than “flee with an undisclosed amount of cash.” Check out my report from yesterday: ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "South Carolina Payday Loan Store Robbed"