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On September 4 at 9:51 p.m., Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of a robbery at the Irving Service Station located at 200 Waverley Road, Dartmouth. A man entered the store and confronted the employee who was working behind the counter. He produced a knife by pulling it out from the front of his pants and pointed the knife at the employee stating, “I have a knife and I want all the cigarettes and bills from the till.” The suspect bolts behind the counter and waves the knife at the employee, he points the knife at the drawer containing the cigarettes and states, “If you don’t give me the cigarettes, I will kill you”. The employee starts filling a green re-usable Sobeys bag which the suspect has in his possession with the cartons of cigarettes. The suspect grabs an undisclosed amount of money from the till and runs towards the door. The suspect bolts out the door and runs to his left towards the car wash. The employee was not injured.
A witness observes the suspect leave the parking lot in an orange Dodge Dart with a temporary permit in the window. As the police are arriving on the scene the witness observes the vehicle pull into an apartment building parking lot at 172 Braemar Drive. The witness notifies the arriving officers on the whereabouts of the suspect vehicle. Officers locate the vehicle which is unoccupied. They observe cigarettes and the jacket the suspect was wearing at the time of the robbery inside the vehicle.
The suspect is described to police as a white male, between 25-30-years-old, 5’8” to 6’0” in height with a slim build. He was wearing a white zip up jacket with three green stripes going down both sleeves of the jacket and three green stripes going across the chest, olive colored pajama pants or sweat pants, white shoes, a dark blue ski mask with an eye slit exposing his eyes. The suspect was carrying a green re-usable Sobeys bag.
Multiple police units attended the scene and are actively looking for the suspect. The K-9 Unit attended the scene with a Police Service Dog and began tracking the suspect from the vehicle to Chrysler Avenue where the scent of the suspects’ track was lost.
An Investigator from the Forensic Identification Unit attended and processed the scene.
The vehicle was seized as evidence and a search warrant will be prepared by Investigators later today to search the vehicle. The investigation will be assigned to Investigators from the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division.
Anyone with information about this incident or the identity of the suspects is asked to call police at 902-490-5016. Anonymous tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers by calling toll-free 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submitting a secure web tip at www.crimestoppers.ns.ca or using the P3 Tips App.