Crime & Safety
Masked Man Robs Gas Station at Knifepoint
Unidentified subject makes off with cash from register and clerk's phone.

An early Thursday morning robbery at knifepoint has Dorchester County detectives looking for the subject, who is wanted for armed robbery.Β
At around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, the clerk of the Amflag station on Dorchester Road was stocking beer when a middle aged, white man brandishing a knife demanded he take him to the register. The man was wearing a black ski mask but appeared to be about 50 years old, 5-feet and 9-inches tall and 190 pounds.Β
According to the report, the subject threatened to kill the clerk if he did not give him the money in the register. After getting the cash, the subject took the clerk's phone and fled on foot.Β
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