BUTTE — Less than one day after being held at gunpoint and robbed, a local cannabis store has its doors open and says they’re offering a $10,000 reward for the information leading to the arrest of the two individuals involved in the robbery.
“I had my back turned, there was nobody else in the store at the time, and two individuals came in. And the first thing they asked me to do was open the till for them,” says Noah Strickfaden, an employee at Greenhouse Dispensary in Butte.
Strickfaden was just starting his shift at the cannabis dispensary at 6:25 p.m. on Jan. 30 when two men in masks entered the shop with a gun.
“My initial instinct was a little bit of a—to resist but at the same time I know that that’s, you know, not the safe situation to do in this case,” says Strickfaden.
Strickfaden stepped aside and the robbers grabbed the cash from the till and a mason jar filled with cannabis products with an estimated worth of $3,000.
“Personally there wasn’t some person that I picked up that I was like, ‘Oh, I know this individual myself.’ However, this is a small town. We live in Butte,