WOODSTOCK -- A Luray area pastor will appear in a Shenandoah County court today on charges he robbed a dollar store at gunpoint this month.

Police charged Hobert Wayne Bryant, 55, with robbery, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony and eluding police during the May 8 incident.

Employees at a local Dollar General store told police a man wearing a blue coat, dark knit hat and sunglasses entered the store some time after 4 p.m., displayed a gun and demanded the contents of the cash register before fleeing in a white Ford Taurus.

Woodstock police later stopped Bryant driving the same car. Inside, police found cash, a disassembled shotgun and a .40-caliber, semiautomatic shotgun.

Bryant has been the longtime pastor of Rocky Branch Baptist Church, near Luray.

-- The Associated Press