Two young Greene County men were charged with multiple offenses by Florida authorities after a three-county pursuit on Saturday, Sept. 19, that began after they allegedly attempted to rob a Jennings, Fla., convenience store.

The Jasper News reported in its Sept. 23 addition that Christopher Cutshall, 20, of Babbs Mill Road, Afton, and Brandon Fox, 20, of Wrenn Street, Greeneville, allegedly tried to rob the Fast Track convenience store at Interstate 75 and County Road 143 in Jennings.

The newspaper reported that Florida police said the pair only got away with $27 in gas and were apprehended a short time later.

Both were being held without bond on Wednesday pending court appearances in a Hamilton County, Fla., court.

Cutshall was charged with armed robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, aggravated assault, three counts of conspiracy, aggravated fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer, reckless driving, unlawful speed, carrying a concealed weapon and tampering with evidence.

Fox was charged with armed robbery, three counts of conspiracy, carrying a concealed firearm, tampering with evidence, petit theft and resisting arrest without violence.

Jasper News reporter Jo Ross said Fox told police he did not know that Cutshall planned to rob the store.

According to a report filed by the Jennings Police Department, Cutshall entered the store intending to rob it. He told clerk Jody Selph to turn on the gas pump so his "brother" could pump gas. The clerk complied and Fox began pumping gas into a gold 1997 Cadillac.

Cutshall, according to a Jennings Police Department report, then pulled a gun and ordered the clerk to give him two cartons of Marlboro Reds cigarettes and "all the cash in the store."

After the clerk "scared" Cutshall by telling him that he [the clerk] had his hand on the silent alarm and that there was a deputy behind the store, Cutshall fled the store, the Jasper News reported.

Cutshall and Fox then fled in the Cadillac southbound on I-75.

As Jennings Police Officer Drew Carroll was responding to the store, Hamilton County sheriff's deputies pursued the vehicle south on I-75 at speeds topping 120 mph, the newspaper reported.

Members of the Jasper Police Department, White Springs Police Department and Jennings Police Department as well as the Florida Highway Patrol joined in the chase.

Cutshall drove south on I-75 crossing through Suwannee County and into Columbia County. After exiting I-75 at US 90 in Lake City, he re-entered I-75 and began traveling north again.

After Deputy Mike Cohen and Officer Carroll deployed stop sticks in two lanes of traffic, the right front tire of Cutsall's vehicle deflated and its speed fell to 60 mph. Deputy Jeramie Cheshire was able to force him from the road.

The pair abandoned the car and hid in the woods just north of mile marker 462 on I-75, police said.

The two young Greene County men were apprehended with help from the Hamilton Correctional Institution's canine unit, the Jasper News reported.