Police report that around 2.30 p.m. the boy was walking toward Reid Street with two others when he dropped the money. As he stopped to pick it up, an older boy snatched it and ran off with friends.

The younger boy chased after the group, unsuccessfully calling for help, but was set upon by the older boy.

He ran into a store but was allegedly dragged out by the group and assaulted again. He escaped to the safety of his mother's job.

Police will be conducting interviews with all concerned as the group are known to the younger boy. He was shaken up but uninjured.

ASSAULT IN RESTAURANT CRM Assault in restaurant Police are looking for a man who allegedly assaulted another man while waiting for food at Hamilton's Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Officers went to the fast food restaurant around 4 p.m. Friday and found a man laying on the floor with a wound to his left eye.

The altercation had apparently started after one man who was in line had an argument with another who was in the premises.