HARTFORD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A gas station in Van Buren County was robbed of several thousand dollars in broad daylight by a 12-year-old boy on Wednesday, June 1.
It happened around 3:52 p.m. in Hartford at the Marathon Station off of East Main Street.
According the Hartford Police Department, the 12-year-old entered the station, pointed a gun at a clerk and demanded money.
He had taken the gun from a locked cabinet at his home, and fired a warning shot with it at the ceiling when the clerk asked him if he was serious. The clerk then gave several thousand dollars to the boy who put the money in a backpack and ran off.
Authorities say that multiple law agencies responded to the incident and found the boy a couple of blocks away in a parking lot behind some businesses.
He was taken to the Allegan County Juvenile Center and arraigned on Thursday at Juvenile Court in Paw Paw.
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