Duluth police credit the public for helping with the arrest of a suspect in the robbery of a West Duluth convenience store.
In a news release, police said they interviewed a 23-year-old Duluth man on Monday about the June 23 robbery of the Little Store at 7002 Grand Ave.
The man had been arrested at a home in the 100 block of North 56th Avenue West by Duluth Violent Crimes Unit investigators and a St. Louis County investigator on an unrelated St. Louis County warrant. Police said the man admitted to the robbery, saying he needed the money for his daughter's day care expenses.
The suspect is in custody awaiting charges of first-degree aggravated robbery. The News Tribune does not normally name suspects until they have been formally charged with a crime.
Duluth police issued a news release on July 5 with images of the suspect captured by the store's surveillance camera, asking for the public's assistance in identifying him. That led to a tip identifying the suspect, police said.
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The robbery was reported at 5:56 a.m. on June 23. Police learned the suspect entered the store and pulled out a tire iron. He asked the clerk for money, saying he needed a couple of hundred dollars because his daughter was in the hospital dying. He left with an undisclosed amount of cash and ran eastbound from the store. No one was injured.
