A search for two suspects continues in connection with the Friday afternoon robbery of the BB&T bank in Centerville.
Two black males armed with a handgun robbed the bank of an undisclosed amount of cash and were last seen leaving the bank's rear door, according to Chief James Hall of the South Boston Police.
No one was injured in the 1:40 p.m. robbery.
The Virginia State Police assisted the South Boston Police Department along with the Halifax Police Department, with Trooper L. G. Perkins using a tracking dog that searched the area toward the golf course of Greens Folly and to areas along Sinai Road.
The two suspects were recorded on film depicting one black male as 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 160 to 175 pounds, 25 to 30 years old, clean shaven and wearing a jean jacket, blue jeans and a ball cap, and the other suspect, a black male, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 17 to 25 years old, with a mustache and goatee, and wearing a green fleece warmup jacket with a hood and the word "STARTER" written in large letters on the front.
The robbery was the third time in two years that the Centerville bank has been targeted.
Anyone with information about the suspects and their whereabouts should call Crime Stoppers at 804-575-8477.
Collect calls are accepted and no name is required to be given. If the information provided leads to an arrest and a conviction, a $1,000 reward could be received.
Lt. Rick Loftis and Sgt. B. K. Lovelace are conducting the investigation.

Walking out to the high school parking lot, Erica Cook pushed her hand into her pocket to retrieve the $227.
"It was gone," she recalled, the anxiety still lingering in her voice. "And I had just cashed my paycheck five minutes before."
The Danville Community College student - who had been at the school with a friend on a errand - rushed back into the high school, but classes were changing and hundreds of students were rushing through the corridors she had just taken.
She retraced her path to no avail. The money had simply vanished.
Erica, more than a little upset, contacted her mother, who immediately called the school to see if the money had been found. It had not.
The same day, HCHS Principal Albert Randolph was rushing to a meeting when Ryan Warriner, 17, came to his office.
"He found the money on the steps in the hall and brought it right in, all rolled up," recalled Randolph.
The next day the principal called Erica Cook's mother but could not reach her. He did talk with one of her co-workers, who set up a conference call with Erica.
"How much money did you lose?" the principal asked Erica.
"Two hundred twenty-seven dollars," replied the DCC freshman, naming the exact amount.
"He said, 'I have your money, come get it.'" recalled Erica.
"I am blessed," said Erica, who still did not know Ryan Warriner's name two days after the incident. "I want to know who he is. I think he deserves something.
"I couldn't believe it. I knew the money was gone. It was a big wad of cash lying on the floor. With two thousand people, not very good odds," added Erica.
"It rarely happens," added the principal. "It was a nice gesture by the student."

Two public hearings and appointments to the South Boston Planning Commission are on the agenda for the January meeting of South Boston Town Council tonight.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at council chambers on Yancey Street.
Public Hearings
· The first public hearing involves a petition from the Tri-Rivers Chapter of the Habitat for Humanity to rezone an approximately 5.5-acre parcel in Ned Evans park from R-1 Low Density Residential to R-2 Medium Density Residential.
Habitat for Humanity is seeking the rezoning in order to allow for the smaller-sized lots proposed for their subdivision on the parcel, which is south of Berry Hill Road and west of Wickham Street.
Habitat proposes the creation of a six-lot subdivision on 3.1 acres with lots ranging in size from 13,600 to 30,370 square feet.
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on December 13, 2000, and voted unanimously to recommend approval. Town planning staff recommends approval of the rezoning request.
· The second public hearing involves a request for a Special Use Permit to allow a governmental agency in a B-1 Neighborhood Business District.
The applicant requests a special use permit be granted to allow a use operated by a governmental agency, the South Boston Police Department, in a B-1 Neighborhood Business District.
Section 114-71.b.4 of the South Boston Town Zoning Ordinance allows "uses operated by governmental agencies and necessary for the provision of government services to adjacent neighborhoods" in B-1 Neighborhood Business Districts by special use permit only.
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on December 13, 2000, and voted unanimously to recommend approval. Town planning staff also recommends approval.
· Council will consider two appointments to the South Boston Planning Commission at Monday's meeting.
The terms of Commissioners Charles Edwards and Jimmy Popek expired on December 31, with Edwards ineligible for reappointment and Popek not wishing to be reappointed.
The following citizens have been suggested for appointment: Dr. Gerald Burnett, 1108 Washington Avenue; Mrs. Lee Edwards, 1047 Papa Moores Trail; George Leonard, 605 Forest Drive; Dr. Michael Marvin, 4510 Brentwood Drive; Carl or Jackie McAbee, 209 Carrington Street.
A citizen comment period will follow the agenda.

By Doug Loftis
Did he think this day would ever come?
"I had hopes it would," said Dr. James H. Priest who had seen his last patient for the day.
But last Thursday was not just another day at the office. For the doctor of oral surgery, it was the first full day of practice since his world came crashing down 2 1/2 years ago.
Jim Priest prided himself in doing everything on a rigid schedule and the lofty goals he set for himself early in life. After completing medical school in 1979, he returned to the community where he had grown up and established his practice.
He was able to meet the demands of his medical practice, that of being a husband and father to three sons, baseball coach and even teacher to young medical students once each month at The Medical College of Virginia.
In medical school, Priest remembers studying about neurological diseases and one in particular known as Guillaine Barrae' Syndrome (GBS). The disease, as he describes it himself, strips the insulation away from the body's nerves. Like an electrical wire, once the insulation is removed, nerve impulses cannot be transmitted and paralysis occurs.
It generally begins with a viral infection and as the body produces antibodies to fight the infection, a strange thing occurs. Rather than attacking the virus, the antibodies attack the nerves.
Paralysis begins in the extremities of the body and progresses from the feet upward often resulting in total paralysis. Victims become dependent on respirators and other life support devices to survive.
In medical school, Priest remembers how he "tossed the book" aside since his specialty was oral maxillofacial surgery, not neurology. But he would later learn more about GBS than he would care to know.
Priest remembers suffering, first, with a stomach virus before experiencing a numbness in his feet and legs.
He was sent to Duke University Medical Center where he was placed in a unit with a dozen other GBS patients.
For two months, he would remain on a respirator but his own doctor, who had treated other GBS patients at John Hopkins University Medical Center, reassured Priest that his recovery should be mostly complete within a year.
"Hey, okay, it's going to be a year," the doctor-turned-patient consented.
In a wheel chair with limited use of the hands that once performed such delicate procedures that could only be viewed under magnification, Priest found himself fighting more than his physical condition. "At that point, I was very depressed," he recalled.
He had heard nurses speak of a Durham minister whose name was Logan Langston. Langston was, himself, a recovered GBS victim who spent seven months on a respirator. His paralysis was such that doctors were forced to tape his eyelids shut to prevent damage to his eyesight.
"And I thought I had it bad!" said Priest who credits Langston with bringing him a new level of hope and faith.
But a year passed and "I was no where near coming back."
The possibility then began to sink in. "I'm never going back to do surgery," he remembers saying to himself.
It's not that Jim Priest wasn't a man of prayer. "Problem was, I had to realize that I was asking God for things on my time schedule."
That concession having been made, Priest began to ask God to have it His way. "If you want me to go back to work in whatever time, fine. Or do something else, fine. It's in your hands now," he would pray.
"From that day forward, I was content," Priest remembered.
He returned to coaching baseball, first from his wheelchair, and last season while on crutches. "Hopefully by this year, I'll just be limping around."
And he began telling his story of faith and recovery to church, civic and social groups.
As the year 2000 progressed, Priest could see his strength returning. "But I needed a test," he said.
He contacted the director of instruction at MCV got permission to return to the classroom. Only this time, Jim Priest would return as a student, not the physician-instructor he had been.
Once each week, he would take his place alongside young interns to see "if my hands can do it".
More importantly though, could his hands do it all day long.
"I knew it was no good if I could only do one case a day," he said.
At first, he found his efforts awkward. "My mind was saying I wasn't doing it the same way I did it before."
He realized that to do the procedures, he would have to modify his methods. After a few weeks, he discovered that it was working, not fast, but working!
"I didn't have the speed I was accustomed to, but I was still ten times faster than the students in there!" said Priest.
Six months at MCV convinced Priest that he could, indeed, return to his practice and the operating room.
Is he a better doctor because of his experience?
"Spiritually and mentally, no doubt about it!"
Procedures he could once "fly through with my eyes shut" take a little more time.
But he learned something else.
"Little things," he calls them, like a caring attitude for his patients. "A little smile, a touch of the hand, little things mean a tremendous amount."

Halifax County Middle School boys basketball coach Mike Hailey was not pleased with his team's fourth quarter against Park View.
The Lions won Thursday night's game against the Cougars 38-33 to remain undefeated in Southside Middle School Conference play and improve to 7-1 overall.
That was well and good.
But Hailey wasn't pleased with how the Lions won, how they had to hang on for dear life to dodge a furious fourth quarter Park View rally.
The Lions squandered the 19 point lead they held at the start of the fourth period and were outscored 15-0 until they scored their lone point of the final stanza on a free throw with 18 seconds to play.
"It was a free-for-all," Hailey said.
"It was a Chinese fire drill."
With Lions reserves on the floor, Park View suddenly came to life.
The Cougars took advantage of numerous Halifax County miscues, used its pressure defense to rattle the younger Lions players and cut the deficit to seven points with just under two and a half minutes to play.
Hailey got his first string back into the lineup but the front-liners, who appeared at times to be almost as rattled as the reserves they replaced, couldn't stem the tide.
Park View cut the Lions' lead to four points with 38 seconds to play and had a chance to close to within a single digit.
After Quintin Brown missed his second straight one and one opportunity at the charity stripe with 31 seconds left, the Cougars got a good look at a three-point shot that rimmed out of the hole.
The Lions got the rebound off of the missed shot and a big opportunity at the foul line with 18 seconds to play after Park View was nailed for an intentional foul.
Dion Ferrell made one of the two free throws to put the Lions up 38-33. And, when Park View was unable to score in the final seconds the Lions walked away with the win.
"We weren't doing anything that was particularly horrible," Hailey said.
"We didn't do anything particularly well either, certainly nothing to write home to mother about. All they (Park View) were doing was taking it to the hole. We didn't do anything to stop it."
The final six minutes of the game were a stark contrast to the first three quarters when the Lions played their type of game and seemingly put the contest out of reach.
Halifax County started the game with a 6-0 run on consecutive baskets by Clyde Brooks, Craig McCargo and Corey Bailey.
The Lions held a six point edge twice in the period before Park View connected on a three-pointer to cut the gap in half.
Brown hit a basket at the end of the period to give Halifax a 10-5 edge after the first six minutes.
Halifax extended its lead to nine points when Brown and McCargo connected to start the second period to give the Lions a 14-5 lead.
The Lions finished the half with a nice flurry as Brown hit two baskets and McCargo added another to lift the Lions to a 20-7 halftime lead.
Then, in the third period, the Lions, leading by a dozen points, came up with a big run that started with two baskets from McCargo, one a three-pointer, and three points from Brooks, to go up 31-11 with 2:22 left in the third period.
Halifax extended its lead to a game-high 21 points with a free throw by Brooks with 1:17 left in the period.
The Cougars cut the deficit to 16 points with a late run before Marcus Coleman concluded the third period for the Lions with a three-pointer that gave the Lions a 19-point lead at 37-18.
"We had the game in hand," Hailey pointed out.
"I thought we played fairly sharp. I thought we executed fairly well."
The Halifax County mistakes coupled with Park View's pressure defense and the big run by the Cougars simply overwhelmed the Lions in the final stanza.
"It rattled everybody sitting next to me on the bench," Hailey said.
"It's not uncommon for that to happen, particularly with young kids."
McCargo led the Lions in the scoring column, scoring 16 of the team's 38 points for the night.
Brown followed with eight points, Brooks scored six points and Bailey followed with four points.

Edna Nolen Pulliam, age 87, of Martinsville, died January 5 at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville.
Mrs. Pulliam was born September 29, 1913 in Patrick County the daughter of Edgar I. Nolen and Betty Turner Nolen, and was married to Paul Pulliam. She was a member of Fuller Memorial Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband of the home; four daughters, Glenda F. Pulliam of Hampton, Beth P. Wilbourne of South Boston, Bonnie M. Pulliam of Vinton and Cathy P. Clark and husband Thomas H. Clark of Bassett; one grandson, Christopher Paul Clark of Bassett; and one sister, Vivian N. Wood of Martinsville. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Col. George M. Nolan, Robert J. Nolan and Oliver S. Nolan, and two sisters, Janie N. Spencer and Irene N. Brogan.
A funeral service for Mrs. Pulliam was held at Fuller Memorial Baptist Church at 3 p.m January 7 with the Rev. Robert Breckenridge officiating. Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery.

Mabel Laundrum Anderson, age 83, of 4100 Halifax Road, South Boston, died January 6 at The Woodview.
Mrs. Anderson was born in Halifax County on September 2, 1917, the daughter of Herbert Clay Laundrum and Hester Henderson Laundrum and was married to E. Irving Anderson. She was a member of Center United Church of Christ.
Survivors include one son, Mike Anderson and wife Judith of Halifax; one daughter, Carole Lacks of South Boston; one grandson, Edward Atkinson of South Boston; one granddaughter, Lisa Waller and husband Mel of Nathalie; and one sister, Jean Guthrie and husband Charlie of South Boston. She was preceded in death by her husband and one sister, Lucille L. Franklin.
A funeral service for Mrs. Anderson will be held today, January 8 at 2 p.m. at Powell Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. John Wilder and Mark Andes conducting the service. Burial will take place in Halifax Memorial Gardens.

Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider Center United Church of Christ or Halifax County Hospice..

Linwood Matthew Pruitt, age 32, of 1051 Hitesmill Road, Virgilina, died January 7 in Duke University Medical Center.
Mr. Pruitt was a native of Halifax County, a son of David Lee and Betty Jean Jordan Pruitt, and husband of Bernice Tuck Pruitt. He was a truck driver for Rose's Corporation in Henderson, NC, and was of the Baptist faith.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. January 9 in Strickland Funeral Home Chapel in Roxboro, NC by the Revs. Russell Pruitt, Rudolph Jacobs, and Chad Branch. Burial will follow in Oak Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery.
Survivors of Mr. Pruitt, in addition to his parents and wife, are one son, Joshua Conner of the home; one daughter, Ashley Pruitt of the home; three brothers, David R. Pruitt of Pilot Mountain, NC, Lee G. Pruitt of South Boston and Rev. Russell J. Pruitt of Madison, NC; his paternal grandmother, Sarah Jones Pruitt of Virgilina.
The family will receive friends at Strickland Funeral Home this evening, January 8 from 7:00 until 9:00, and other times at the home.

Joseph Earnest "Turk" Sydnor, age 47, of 1502 Pine Height Trail, Halifax, died January 4 at Halifax Regional Hospital.
Mr. Sydnor was born in Halifax County on November 23, 1953, the son of Willie Creed Sydnor and Phoebe White Sydnor Hayes. He was a member of Banister Hill Baptist Church and was a former employee of Virginia Department of Transportation.
Survivors include four sisters, Bertha Bailey, Phoebe Barksdale, Geraldine Jones and Janie Sydnor, all of Halifax; four brothers, Willie Sydnor of Poolesville, Md, Paul Sydnor and Harry Hayes, both of Halifax and Charlie Hayes of Vernon Hill; his step-grandmother, Theresa White of South Boston.

A funeral service for Mr. Sydnor was held January 7 at 2:30 p.m. at Banister Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. William Carr officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Henry Lee Jones, age 77, of Nathalie died December 31 at his home.
Mr. Jones was born in Halifax County on June 11, 1923. Survivors include his wife, Sarah Jones of Alexandria; one daughter, Juanita Williams of Alexandria; one son, Michael Jones of Alexandria; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; four sisters, Annie Sydnor of Halifax, Lottie Traynham of Clover, Mildred Brown of New Haven, Conn. and Marylee Davis of Scottsburg.
Memorial services for Mr. Jones were held January 6 at 1 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Nathalie with the Rev. Ronald Claiborne officiating.