Crime & Safety
UPDATED: Framingham Man Charged with 2 Armed Robberies
Police say a Framingham man, 29, robbed AV's Market II on Tuesday and the Raj Mini Market on Sunday.
Framingham Police arrested a Greenview Street resident Tuesday night and charged him with armed robbery of two markets.
Ramon Roman, 29, 6 Greenview St., Apt. 116, was arrested at his residence.
He was charged with two counts of armed robbery.
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Police say he held up AV's Market II on Tuesday, Feb. 5 and Raj Mini Market, 80 Waverly St. Sunday night.
An employee at AV's II Market told Police a black man wearing a black hooded jacket and latex gloves pointed a silver handgun at the clerk and threatened to shoot him, if the clerk didn’t give him money, said Framingham Police Lt. Ron Brandolini.
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Brandolini said the clerk gave the suspect "several thousand dollars." The man then left the store and headed towards Ashland on Waverly Street.
On Sunday at 7:15 p.m., the owner of Raj Mini Market told Police a Hispanic man with a handgun robbed his store of $700 cash.
Roman was to be arraigned in Framingham District Court Wednesday. The judge held him on $50,000 bail.
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