PEMBROKE, Maine (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- Police caught up quickly to a bicycle being ridden by a man fitting the description of the robber who had just struck a store in Pembroke.
Twenty-year-old Joshua Fluke of Charlotte was arrested Wednesday on a charge of armed robbery and taken to Washington County Jail. He was already on probation for a previous incident.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office said Fluke was wearing a mask and armed with a handgun when he walked up to the checkout counter at the Dollar General store on Route 1 and took the cash out of the register.
The robber was spotted heading toward Route 1 as he ran out of the store. Soon after a store worker called 911 to report the crime around 4:45 p.m., police got another call about a man with a similar appearance riding a bicycle up Ayers Junction Road. The robber was described as a white male, about 6'1 or 6'2" tall, wearing a white jacket and black hat.
That description led police to Fluke. Officers from several agencies surrounded him along Route 214. As Fluke was taken into custody, police said they found that he was carrying a weapon and the cash that was taken in the robbery.
