Crime & Safety

7-Eleven Robbed at Gunpoint

A police dog tracked the criminal, but lost his scent near Haverford Township.

No one was injured after an armed robber stole cash from 7-Eleven in Overbrook Hills on Wednesday, Lower Merion Police are reporting.

A slimly built man in his early 20s burst into the store and, brandishing a gun, demanded that the clerk hand over all the money he had on hand a little before 2 a.m. on June 19, police say a customer told them.

The clerk at the 1401 City Avenue convenience store complied, and the robber shoved the cash into his pants before running out of the store and south on City Avenue, police say. 

A K9 team tried to track the man down, but the dog lost his scent near the border of Haverford Township. Police are operating under the assumption that he got into a car at that point and drove off.

"When you do a dog track, when the track ends, [the pursued] must have gotten into a car," Officer JoAnne Pepitone said, explaining that a K9 will generally not lose a scent otherwise. 

Because the robber was wearing a ski-mask, neither the customer or the clerk was able to give a particularly detailed description, Pepitone said.


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