Dyersburg police investigate armed robbery of worker making night deposit

DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Police are investigating after an employee of a local business was robbed at gunpoint while making a night deposit.

The employee was making the deposit around 10 p.m. Thursday at a night deposit box when an unknown suspect approached them and brandished a gun, according to the Dyersburg Police Department.

The employee threw the deposit toward the suspect who then fled with the undetermined amount of money.

Dyersburg police are asking anyone with information in the incident to call the department’s Criminal Investigations Division at 731-288-7679 or Crime Stoppers at 731-285-TIPS (8477).