CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- Chesterfield Police have arrested a man who robbed a convenience store at knife point late Tuesday evening.
The man was apprehended after a brief foot chase shortly after robbing a BP gas station in Chesterfield County, Crime Insider sources said.
Police confirmed the getaway car was spotted in Powhatan and a traffic stop was initiated.
Tuesday's robbery took place around 9 p.m. at a BP gas station at the 13700 block of Hull Street Road. Witnesses described a fully-masked man walking in and jumping over the counter with a knife.
The event mirrors more than a dozen other knife point robberies from around Richmond in recent weeks.
Police will now have to determine if the man is connected to the previous string of robberies.
