Crime & Safety

Police: Robbery Suspects Hit Vernon Store After Poquonock Gas Station

Two individuals suspected of robbing a Poquonock Gas Station are also suspects in a Vernon robbery later in the day.

According to Vernon Police, the two individuals Wednesday morning were also invovled in a robbery that took place at a Vernon convenience store that same night.

The suspects match the description of those who were involved in similar robberies inand Glastonbury, Vernon Police said.

Police said that at 7:52 p.m. on Wednesday, they received a report of an armed robbery at the convenience store. Police said a clerk told them that one person entered the store, armed with a large knife, and threatened to kill the clerk if he did not cooperate.

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The suspect took an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes before fleeing the store, police said.

Police said the clerk was unharmed.

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The robber was described, police said, as either a white or light-skinned Hispanic man with a thin build. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and jeans, and fled the scene in a blue, extended-cab Dodge pickup truck, police said.

The vehicle was last seen on Union Street, heading east, police said. Police said they later determined the vehicle was stolen.


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