The suspect, Maxwell N. Mulligan of 128 Whisconier Road was identified from surveillance video footage of the robbery at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, at the Wheels convenience store at 82 Stony Hill Road, police said.
In the footage, the suspect was seen paying for items at the register. When the clerk opened the cash drawer for change, the suspect jumped across the counter, pushing the clerk’s hands from the drawer and stealing several hundred dollars from the cash drawer, police said.
The suspect fled westbound on foot behind a neighboring plaza.
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Bethel police detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Mulligan on Friday. Mulligan was located by the Wilton Police Department late Friday afternoon and taken into custody on the Bethel arrest warrant, police said.
Mulligan was charged with third-degree robbery and fifth-degree larceny and held on a $20,000 bond. He will be arraigned Monday, Feb. 27, in Danbury Superior Court. The investigation is still underway, police said.
Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call Officer Tom Schretzenmayer of the Bethel Police Department at 203-744-7900 or email him at tschretzenmayer@bethelpd.com.
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