Lorne Lynch will have his federal detention hearing on December 19, court records show.

He is currently being held in the Halifax County Detention Center pending the outcome of the hearing next week.

A writ of habeas corpus concerning the Hollister man was entered into the federal court record as executed last week, the same time United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank approved a continuance of the detention hearing until December 19 as counsel needs additional time to prepare, a transcript of an oral order confirms.

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.