Police: Man with pellet gun robbed woman pumping gas in North Amityville
Billy McMahon, 24, of Centereach, was arrested on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015, and charged with robbery after being accused of holding up a woman at a North Amityville gas station, police said. Credit: SCPD
Suffolk County police have arrested a man suspected of robbing a woman pumping gas in North Amityville on Thursday.
The woman was filling up her car at the Citgo at 655 Broadway at about 8:50 p.m. when Billy McMahon, 24, of 2 Esther Ct., Centereach, approached her with a pellet gun, police said.
McMahon then took cash from the woman and fled on foot, police said.
He was arrested a short distance away by responding officers. Police charged McMahon with first-degree robbery. He is due to be arraigned Friday at First District Court in Central Islip.
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