Lincoln police arrested a 20-year-old man they suspect threatened a gas station clerk with a handgun while stealing a bottle of vodka early Monday morning.
A clerk at the Kwik Shop near 47th and Calvert streets told police he saw a man come in about 1:30 a.m. and hide the bottle in his pants, then walk toward the exit, Capt. Jason Stille said.
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The clerk confronted the man but backed off after he showed him the butt of a black pistol, Stille said. The man left, and the clerk wasn't injured.
With the help of a police dog, officers tracked the man to the 4500 block of Prescott Avenue and saw a man matching the suspect's description through an apartment window, he said.Â
The man refused to come out to talk to police, so police got a search warrant and a SWAT team served it about 7:30 a.m.
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Inside, officers recovered a pistol they suspect was used in the robbery and arrested Tyler O. Robertson on suspicion of robbery and use of a weapon to commit a felony.
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