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A Pennsylvania man is a suspect in the armed robbery of Speedy Mart in Arnoldsburg.
18-year-old Brian Michael Farabaugh fired shots at a Tennessee Highway Patrol
cruiser, after an officer attempted to stop a Chevrolet Geo Tracker which had been
stolen from a Jackson County WV business.
The Jackson Tennessee Sun said a dozen cruisers chased the man for 40-minutes
down I-40, going through three counties. Police stopped the vehicle using road
spikes. Farabaugh then fired a shot into his chin and face in an apparent suicide
attempt, but he is reportedly recovering from the injuries.
The man was apprehended on December 31, one day after a man held a gun on a
Speedy Mart clerk in the early morning hours of December 30.
Sgt. J. D. Corbitt or Trooper Doug Starcher of the Grantsville Detachment declined to
provide public information about the case after a written request, but did provide
Spencer Newspapers with details. State Police declined to provide a photo of the
robber taken by the stores security camera. (SEE Times-Record/Roane County
Reporter story on Hur Herald LINKS under WV Newspapers)
Sgt. Corbitt told Spencer Newspapers that Farabaugh was wanted for questioning for
break-ins of a pharmacy and gun store in Pennsylvania, and that 16 guns were found
in his vehicle. | 
