Police Dog Tracks Down Tolland XtraMart Robbery Suspect

TOLLAND, CT — A suspect in a Saturday Tolland convenience store robbery was tracked down by a police dog unit a short distance from the crime scene, state police said.

At 12:42 a.m. Saturday, state police were called to the XtraMart on Hartford Turnpike for a reported robbery.

Troopers were told that a man wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and dark pants had fled the store, according to an arrest report. The man was located by a police dog track on Sand Hill Road and was taken into custody, according to an attest report.

Security footage from the store match the man with the robbery and he was later identified as 27-year-old Coventry resident Nicholas Chad Hendel, the report indicates.

He was charged with second-degree robbery, sixth-degree robbery, interfering and second-degree breach of peace.

State police did not detail in an arrest report what was stolen.