Boucher demanded money from the register, but when a clerk offered him a dollar to leave, he accepted and then made his way to the Taco Bell around the corner.
SPRINGFIELD - An 18-year-old Connecticut man who attempted to rob a Belmont Avenue convenience store with a broken bottle Monday night was arrested by police moments later inside a fast-food restaurant around the corner on Sumner Avenue, police said.
Springfield Police Capt. William Collins said Nicholas Boucher of Windsor Locks, Conn., was charged with armed robbery shortly after the 7 p.m. incident.
Police charged that Boucher entered the Cumberland Farms convenience store, 514 Belmont Ave., and threatened a clerk with the jagged end of a broken bottle, Collins said. He told her "give me everything you have," Collins said.
Another clerk who was in the store offered to give Boucher a dollar if he would go away. Boucher accepted and fled, and once he did, the clerks called police, Collins said.
Police investigated and found some articles of clothing outside the store matching the description of the suspect's clothing. A short time later, they found Boucher a few hundred feet away inside the Taco Bell restaurant at 546 Sumner Ave., Collins said.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Tuesday in Springfield District Court.
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