Mount Vernon Man Arrested For Robbing Speedway Gas Station: VMPD

MAMARONECK, NY — A gas station robbery in the early morning hours on Sunday was foiled by Village of Mamaroneck Police.

Police received a call from an alarm company reporting a hold-up alarm had been triggered at the Speedway Gas Station on Mamaroneck Ave. A 31-year-old employee told police that a man came into the store and demanded money from the register. He also told investigators that the robber motioned to his waistband towards what the employee believed was a firearm.

Village police officers, along with officers from the Town of Mamaroneck and Larchmont police departments, immediately began searching the area around the gas station.

Just after 5 a.m., a resident told a Village of Mamaroneck police officer that someone was hiding in a shed at the rear of his yard at a home roughly a block away from the scene of the robbery. Units converged on the shed and were able to take the suspect into custody without incident.

The gas station attendant positively identified the man in custody as the robbery suspect, police said. The suspect was identified by authorities only as a 39-year-old man from Mount Vernon. He was charged with felony robbery, grand larceny, menacing and petit larceny. He was arraigned in the Village of Mamaroneck Court and remanded to the Westchester County Jail, according to authorities.