Police have released video surveillance stills of a suspect involved in the robbery of a customer at a gas station last month.
The RCMP is looking for the public's help finding a man who came out of the Shell on St. Albert Trail at McKenney Avenue and pulled a knife on a customer filling up with gas.
The male customer was filling his vehicle when the man came out of the gas station and demanded money from him while brandishing a knife.
The man complied and the suspect jumped into a green Ford pickup truck and took off. Officers patrolled the area looking for him, but were unable to find him.
Cpl. Laurel Kading said officers did manage to track down the truck, but the suspect appears to have just been hitching with the driver.
“He wasn't driving, the guy in the truck had no idea. He really just gave this guy a ride.”
Kading admits that is odd, but said the RCMP is confident the driver knew nothing of the robbery and, as odd as it sounds, some people do offer strangers rides. She said it was also unusual for someone to rob a customer at a gas station and not the station itself.
The suspect is described as about 30 years old, approximately six-feet tall and around 200 pounds. He was Caucasian, balding and had a scruffy goatee.
At the time of the robbery he was wearing a dark hoodie under a down jacket and jeans.
Anyone with any information on this robbery is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700.
