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Image captured by security video in the Market Street Market in Chehalis. / Courtesy photo Chehalis Police Department

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Chehalis police are still looking for a man armed with a sword who held up the Market Street Market at 13th Street on Saturday night.

He pointed the weapon, estimated to be about two feet long, at two clerks and told them to give him the money shortly before 10:30 p.m., according to police.

The Chehalis Police Department has received some tips, but nobody has been caught, police said today.

The individual was wearing a blue bandana over his face, so clerks could only describe him as possibly in his mid-20s.

They said he was 5-feet 8-inches to 5-feet 10-inches tall, and perhaps weighing between 160 to 170 pounds.

The incident followed another armed robbery the night before in Centralia.

A man about 6 feet tall went into the Smokin J’s Smoke Shop on the 600 block of West Main Street, displayed a small handgun and took all the cash in the till around 7 p.m. on Friday, according to police.

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