Police: Suspect held up station

Police asked for the public’s help Wednesday in finding a man who robbed a Chevron gas station clerk over the weekend.

Surveillance photos released by authorities show a Latino man, described as 5-foot-7, 160 pounds in his mid-20s with no facial hair wearing a gray, hooded sweater pulling a gun on a clerk about 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Chevron gas station at 3190 Harbor Blvd.

Police said the man approached the clerk, pointed a handgun at the cashier and demanded the money in the register and the safe box. The clerk complied, and the armed robber fled in a black pickup truck. Police said it appeared to be a 1999-2000 Dodge Ram stock pickup truck.

Anyone with information that can aid identifying the suspect or with information about the robbery is asked to call Det. Dana Potts at (714) 754-5363.

Reporter JOSEPH SERNA may be reached at (714) 966-4619 or at [email protected].