SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - It did not take long for Sheboygan Police to find a suspect and confirm the person as the one who allegedly robbed a gas station on the city’s northside last week.
25 year old Nicholas McAtee was charged December 7, 2015 with armed robbery, resisting an officer, and bail jumping for the theft of cash and cigarettes from the Clark gas station on North 15th Street and North Avenue December 3.
All three charges are as repeaters, as online court records show he is on bond for a separate armed robbery case from 2013, with court dates this month and next month for it. He also was sentenced for another armed robbery in 2013.
The criminal complaint for the charges details what happened after Sheboygan Police got to the scene and learned the suspect headed north.
An officer was able to find a person walking a few blocks north of the business on Mayflower Avenue, and asked several times for the person to stop. Instead, the person started to run with police pursuing by foot and vehicles. The pursuit lasted for a few blocks before the suspect was captured on Columbus Avenue, later identified as McAtee.
At the same time, another officer interviewed the store clerk who was working when the robbery occurred. She said she noticed a male enter the store as she was closing down. The male, alleged to be McAtee based on the clothes he was wearing when arrested and what the clerk described the suspect as wearing, reportedly told her “I have a gun, I don’t want to hurt you, just give me all the money. I don’t want to hurt you, I’m just having a bad day.” The suspect then displayed what looked like the butt end of a hand gun inside the waist of his pants. That was later determined to be a BB gun.
The clerk added she opened up the till drawer and allowed the suspect to grab what was inside and put it in a plastic shopping bag. The suspect then took cash from a cash box and from the top of the counter, plus a couple packs of Marlboro cigarettes. Before the suspect left, the clerk heard him say “thank you for your cooperation.” She then locked the door and called 911.
Police also talked to the store’s owner, who was able to show officers surveillance video at the time of the robbery. The images of the suspect matched what McAtee was wearing when he was arrested.
Police retraced the area where the chase of McAtee took place and, along the way, found cash, cigarettes, and a cell phone on the ground. In total, over 11-hundred dollars of cash and items were recovered.
McAtee now faces over 46 years in prison for the recent charges.