Tuesday evening there was an armed robbery at the ARCO Minuteman gas station located at 3346 S. Harlem Ave in Riverside. The robbery happened around 8 p.m. The robber allegedly entered the gas station armed with a black handgun and made off with more than $500 in cash according to Matt Buckley, Riverside’s director of public safety.
A little over 14 hours later Khalid Bryant, a 25-year-old from Berwyn, was arrested while sitting in a four-door Toyota sedan parked in a parking lot located at Wolf Road and Harrison in Hillside. Bryant was taken to the North Riverside lockup and charged with armed robbery.
Police officers used video surveillance to determine that after the robbery the thief ran from the gas station west on Quincy Street to a car that was parked at 300 Quincy in Riverside and drove off. Police were able to identify the car’s license plate from the surveillance camera video. The car was spotted Wednesday morning near the Eisenhower Expressway and Wolf Road. Police from Riverside, Bellwood, and Hillside found the car in the parking lot and entered and made the arrest as a woman was getting into the driver’s seat of the car. Bryant was sitting in the front passenger seat of the car.
“We used a lot of technology to identify the license plate and locate the car,” Buckley said.
