Crime & Safety

Attempted Gunpoint Robbery at Plaza Mobile Early Sunday Morning

The following information was supplied by the Braintree Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

A man fled the Mobil on the Run at the South Shore Plaza Sunday morning after he tried to rob the gas station with a handgun.

The suspect left without robbing the Mobil after the attendant refused to give him money, Police Chief Russell Jenkins said in a statement.

The attendant told police that the suspect wore a hooded sweatshirt and a stocking cap partially obscuring his face when he came in at 2 a.m. and demanded money.

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