ATCHISON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a robbery and have a suspect in custody.
Just before 3p.m. Saturday police officers responded to a robbery that had occurred at Cricket Wireless at 121 South 8th Street in Atchison, according to police chief Mike Wilson.
A lone suspect later identified as Mark A. Stephens, 26, Melbourne Florida, entered the store and ordered a clerk to get him iPhones from a locked box as he showed the clerk a handgun he had in his waist.
Stephens also grabbed phone accessories before fleeing the scene to a nearby parked vehicle, according to Wilson.
Officers were able to obtain a vehicle description that was broadcast to area law enforcement. The Nissan SUV with a Missouri license tag was determined to be stolen from the Kansas City area.
The vehicle was located at 4:30PM by the Missouri Highway Patrol on the shoulder of I-29 near the Camden Point exit in Platte County.
Troopers took Stephens into custody and he is being held in the Platte County jail for Atchison Police on a requested charge of aggravated robbery, according to Wilson.