AUGUSTA — A Western Avenue convenience store was robbed Sunday night by an armed man that police say they need help identifying.

The robber showed what an Augusta Quik Mart employee believed to be a gun before demanding cash at around 8:30 p.m., Deputy Chief Jared Mills of the Augusta Police Department said in a news release.

After he got an undisclosed amount of money, Mills said the robber ran out of the store.

Mills described the robber as a white man between 20 and 30 years old with a slim build, wearing a red and black jacket, a gray bomber hat and aviator sunglasses. Police released a surveillance photo of the robber Monday, with Lt. Christopher Massey, commander of the department’s Special Services Division, saying that detectives worked on the case all day Monday, but still can’t identify the robber.

Armed convenience store robberies are relatively rare in the Augusta area in recent years.

The last one in Augusta was in September, when a masked man with a gun demanded cash at the Mount Vernon Avenue Cumberland Farms.

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Also last year, in March, the Circle K store on Winthrop’s Main Street was robbed.

That robber wore green pajama pants and showed a gun, but nobody has been arrested in that case, which Capt. Ryan Frost of the town’s police department classified as “still pending.”

Massey said people with information about Sunday’s robbery can call Detective Brian Wastella at 626-2370, extension 3420.

Michael Shepherd — 370-7652

mshepherd@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @mikeshepherdme


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