DARLINGTON, SC (WBTW) – Darlington County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an early morning armed robbery call at a Darlington Burger King.
That robbery occurred at 1:24 a.m. Saturday, at the Burger King located at Lamar Highway and S. Governor Williams Highway.
According to Lt. Robert Kilgo, deputies were told that a “lone black male suspect wearing a mask, armed with a long gun entered the restaurant after an employee walked out the front door.”
The press release also states the suspect ordered the employees into a freezer and demanded everything they had, before leaving without any items through a rear door.
While deputies were investigating the incident they recovered a loaded revolver with five bullets, meth, crack cocaine and marijuana from an individual, according to Lt. Kilgo.
Deputies arrested Gregory Lamont Benjamin, 32, Hartsville and charged him with distribution of cocaine base, possession of less than one gram of meth, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and simple possession of marijuana.
Benjamin was released on a $10,000 surety bond in March having been charged with assault and battery, first degree.
He has since been indicted on those charges.
Benjamin is being held at the W. Glenn Campbell Detention Center on an $11,000 surety bond.
