After a partial detention hearing in December, Lorne Lynch last month was granted pretrial release to the custody of his mother for transport to a substance abuse treatment center.

The second part of the detention hearing in Greenville came earlier than expected and Lynch, charged federally in two armed robberies, appeared before Magistrate Kimberly A. Swank in early January.

He will have a bond review hearing on March 5.

Lynch had been indicted on two federal counts in July. The counts are tied to two robberies of the Family Dollar store on Evans Road in Hollister.

Count one charges that Lynch robbed the store by means of actual and threatened force on April 5 and in count two it charges he committed the same crime the following day.

The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office reported at the time that during the April 6 robbery Lynch, 35, was stabbed by an employee.

He fled the store and stole a car. He was apprehended a short time later. He was initially taken to a trauma unit for treatment. 

The first robbery occurred around 8:30 p.m. on April 5. 

Investigation by Sergeant B. Edmondson revealed that Lynch was the suspect in the first robbery, in which he wielded a knife and forced employees to move from one location to another.

He left the store with an undisclosed amount of cash.

The following morning Lynch returned to the same store to commit a second robbery. He injured an employee with his knife but the employee used his own knife to injure Lynch.