Crime & Safety

UPDATED: Marlborough Man Arraigned on Charges of Robbing Gulf, Shell Stations

The man is charged with an armed robbery of the Gulf gas station Saturday, and the Shell station the night before.

Updated: A 47-year-old man was arraigned Monday on charges of robbing two Marlborough gas stations within 24 hours, then failing to stop for police when an officer spotted his vehicle.

The arrest was made about 2:15 p.m. Saturday afternoon, soon after an armed robbery was reported at the Gulf gas station, at 223 Maple St.

Stephen M. White, of 39 Newton St., Apt. 12, Marlborough, is charged with two counts of armed robbery with a firearm and one count of failure to stop for police, according to court records.

District Judge Cesar Archila Jr. ordered him held on $3,000 cash bail Monday, in an arraignment hearing at Marlborough District Court.

According to a police statement, Officer Scott King spotted a vehicle driven by White, about a mile away from the Gulf crime scene, and saw that it matched a description of the getaway vehicle. When he fell in behind the vehicle, the suspect spotted him in the rear view mirror, then took a quick right on to I-495 North, the officer reported.

Initially, the suspect pulled over when King activated his blue lights and siren, but after he and another responding officer exited their cruisers, the car sped away. The vehicle did pull over about a quarter-mile later.

Police arrested White, and King reported he recovered $1,900 from White's jacket pocket. No weapon was recovered, police said, but the officer wrote on his report that White had ample time to discard one. 

Initially, White blamed the robbery of the Gulf on his passenger. Then, King stated, White recanted, and said he had been solely responsible. Later, speaking with detectives, White also admitted to the robbery of the Shell station the previous night, King reported.

He insisted that he never had a weapon, for either robbery, King said. But he did tell police that he had threatened the clerks with a firearm. In the Shell Station, he told the clerk: "Give me all the money. I have a weapon."

In that robbery, the clerk was robbed about midnight Friday. White told the officer he netted about $300 to $400 Friday night in that robbery, and used it to buy heroin in Worcester, and to pay for a hotel room, King reported.


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