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Weirton police seek man in robbery

WEIRTON — City Police are seeking a man in connection with a robbery at Gabriel Brothers on Three Springs Drive Saturday afternoon.

Police said officers were called at 2:07 p.m. to the store where the store manager said a black man, about 6-feet, 4-inches tall and weighing about 300 pounds came to the checkout counter to make a purchase. Police said the manager reported the man handed the cashier a $100 bill to pay for his merchandise, threatened the cashier, told the cashier to give him all the money in the register and his $100 back.

The man then got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

At the time, the man was wearing a gray ballcap with a black bill, gray sweatpants and a gray sweat jacket.

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