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Kingston police search for armed robbery suspect

Kingston police are asking for the public's help identifying a suspect in an armed robbery at a grocery store. Kingston Police/Handout

Police are asking for help tracking down a suspect after a Kingston grocery store was robbed at knifepoint last week.

Investigators say the lone male suspect paid for two canned drinks but then pulled out a large knife and demanded cash from the cashier working at the store near the corner of Montreal Street and Railway Street Friday.

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When the cashier refused to hand over cash, police say the suspect took a case of chocolate bars and ran out the door.

The suspect was wearing a heavy dark blue jacket with a black hoodie pulled up over a baseball cap, and police say the man’s hat had a red beak with a white “C” stitched inside a black circle.

The say the suspect was clean-shaven and had “dirt-covered hands.”

He was also wearing a beige, red and white glove on his left hand and a beige glove with a dark palm on his right hand.

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Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Jamie Graham at 613-549-4660 ext. 6311 or via email at jgraham@kingstonpolice.ca.

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