The incident happened early Sunday morning, April 28.
A knife-wielding suspect reportedly robbed the Sunoco Service Station in Newton Centre on Sunday, April 28. According to Newton Police reports, officers were dispatched to the service station (325 Boylston St.) just after 6:30 a.m. Sunday for reports of an armed robbery. The reporting party told police she was going about her day in a usual manner when the suspect walked through the door with a knife pointed at her. The suspect told the woman to "open the register" and "go faster." The suspect was described as a black male in his late 20s, average height with brown eyes. He was wearing green sweat pants and a light blue striped sweatshirt with the hood up, reports said. The suspect also had a purple scarf wrapped around the lower half of …
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Sunoco APlus Express
325 Boylston St, Newton Center, MA
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Police are still investigating the alleged incident, which happened Thursday night on Jackson Street in Newton.
Updated 2:56 p.m. Newton Police say they are still investigating earlier reports of an armed robbery on Jackson Street. Police say they responded to a call Thursday night of a man who said he was robbed at gunpoint while he was walking down Jackson Street, behind the Fortune Panda restaurant. The alleged victim now has given police at least two different stories of what happened that night. Lt. Bruce Apotheker says a report will be released when the investigation is complete; at that time, we will bring you the full story on Newton Patch.
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Fortune Panda Chinese Cuisine
387 Boylston St, Newton Center, MA
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Jackson St & Daniel St, Newton, MA
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rick hatler
8:49 pm on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Do we need to hear the suspect's race? Isn't that racisy? I think the police need to be more sensitive to stereotyping. more ›