Robber with knife takes cash from service station

3/21/2001

A man with a knife took an undetermined amount of money yesterday from the BP gas station at 1000 Woodville Rd., police said.

The man picked out a bottle of beer and put it on the counter before he pulled the knife and told the clerk, Dennis McVicker, to open the cash drawer about 3:20 p.m.

The man held the knife in his right hand and reached into the drawer with his left hand and took the money.

He fled toward East Broadway, police said.