Police investigate Westbury Conoco gas station robbery
Police are searching for an armed robber who stuck up a gas station early Monday in Westbury, stealing cash.
The robbery occurred at the Conoco gas station on Union Avenue at 12:18 a.m., Nassau County police said.
No one was injured.
Police said the suspect, wearing a black mask and a black hooded sweatshirt and armed with a handgun, entered the station and approached clerk, demanding cash. The attendant complied and the robber fled the scene on foot, police said.
Police did not detail how much was taken.
Anyone with information regarding the robbery is being asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-244-8477.
All calls will remain confidential.
John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”
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