PHILLIP SPREE - Police are on the hunt for people behind two separate armed robberies that happened within hours of each other in Philippi.
The first one happened around 7:00 p.m. along Maple Avenue in Phillipi.
Police said three men held a woman at gunpoint, stole a safe and ran away.
About an hour and a half later, a similar crime occurred on North Walnut Street.
In this robbery, three men rang the doorbell to a home and shoved a gun in a person's face. That person was able to disarm the man who was holding the gun.
All three men got away.
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