ELIZABETHTOWN — Lawmen are investigating a Monday incident at a Bladen County school in Elizabethtown that Sheriff Jim McVicker said involves a bus driver and an armed robber before daybreak.
It happened Monday about 4:15 a.m. at Elizabethtown Middle School, a news release says. The bus driver arrived to begin her route, was confronted by two suspects, and one of them produced a gun and demanded the car in which she arrived.
The suspects, a man and woman, took the bus driver’s 2014 Chevrolet Cruze, purse and cellphone.
No one was injured. No arrests have been announced.
The bus driver took the school bus to the Sheriff’s Office to report the incident. The release says the bus driver reported the suspects told her their car was out of gas at the N.C. 87 and U.S. 701 ramp, and wanted her to take them to get gas. She declined, citing the need to start her route.
Bladen deputies later found a vehicle on the off ramp of N.C. 87 and seized it. The release said a suspect has been identified in a photo array.
The case is under investigation.
A request for comment from Bladen County Schools was made Tuesday morning. At midday Wednesday, the district still had no comment.
The car is valued at $15,000 and the cellphone $600. The amount of cash taken was $30, the release said.