Another gas station convenience store was held up at gunpoint last night.
An armed man held up the clerk at Calverton gas station on Route 25 shortly after 10 p.m., Riverhead Police said in a press release issued early this morning.
The man, dressed in dark clothing and brandishing a black handgun, entered the convenience store at the Mobil station, just east of Edwards Avenue and demanded cash from the registers, police said. He was given an undetermined amount of money and left in an unknown direction.
A Riverhead Police K-9 unit along with N.Y. State Police searched the area, but the suspect remains at large, according to the police report.
This was the second armed robbery of a convenience store in two days reported by Riverhead Police. On Saturday night at 9:30 — during the blizzard — a man with a handgun held up the Valero gas station on Route 25A in Wading River, about five miles from the Calverton gas station robbed last night. Police did not say whether they believe the same person was responsible for both robberies.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to contact the Riverhead Police Department at 631-727-4500. All calls will be kept confidential, police said.
Editor’s note: This story as originally published incorrectly stated that the Mobil station is located west of Edwards Avenue. It is east of Edwards.
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