SHAWNEE COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities investigating a convenience store robbery have made an arrest.
Just after 10p.m. July 30, police responded to a robbery at the Kwik Shop, 2619 SW 21st Street in Topeka, according to Police Captain Aaron Jones.
Officers received information from numerous citizens leading to a suspect vehicle. Just before 11:30 p.m., officers spotted the vehicle near 20th and SW Lincoln Street. Officers attempted a traffic stop and the driver fled. Citizens again helped officers by providing information that led them back to the 2000 block of SW Lincoln where the car was reportedly parked in a garage and the occupants had fled into a residence on the same property.
All attempts to contact the occupants of the house failed. Investigators applied for and were granted a search warrant for the residence.
Just before 6a.m. Tuesday, two people exited the house and were taken into custody.
As a result of the information and evidence discovered to this point, Donald A. Henderson III, 26 of Topeka has been arrested and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges of Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Criminal Use of a Firearm by a Felon, and Felony Obstruction.
Police released the second person detained, according to Jones.