Police: Robber Struck Twice This Summer

Authorities have charged an Awendaw man with two violent armed robberies that occured this summer.

Joseph B. Whiteside Jr., 27, faces robbery charges for the Sept. 3 hold-up at the McDonald's on Ironclad Alley as well as charges for the June 27 hold-up of the Roadside Kitchen on U.S. Hwy. 17.

Whiteside apparently confessed to the June robbery when he was arrested by Mount Pleasant police earlier this month, according to a Charleston County Sheriff's court affidavit.

Kien Williams, 20, of North Charleston, also was charged in the Roadside Kitchen robbery, according to Sheriff's spokesman Major Jim Brady.

Deputies allege the men entered the restaurant through a back door, dressed in all black with their faces covered, and they demanded at gunpoint that the manager open the restaurants safe and hand over cash. The suspects fled with the money and several of the employees' cell phones, according to reports.

When Mount Pleasant police arrested Whiteside for the McDonald's robbery, he apparently confessed to the earlier hold-up, reports indicate.

Police have arrested four subjects for the McDonald's robbery, which resulted in a store manager being shot twice after he refused to unlock the safe.

Whiteside, George Herman McClain III, Timothy D. Taylor and Deron Moultrie are all charged with the McDonald's robbery, according to Mount Pleasant police.