Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police have charged a convicted felon with the armed robbery of a Savannah man in the downtown area Tuesday night.Dennis Lamar White, 26, was arrested after Downtown Precinct Patrol officers and an off-duty officer working neighborhood patrols "encountered a group of males after the 8:30 p.m. robbery at Habersham and Harris streets," a department spokesperson says.
White was identified as the male "who approached the 32-year-old victim as he was walking on Harris Street toward Habersham, pointed a gun at him and forced him to turn over cash. The victim got away when a car approached and the robber and an accomplice departed," police say.
White has more than a dozen arrests by Savannah and Chatham County authorities and has served two prison sentences.…
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