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Police Search for Watertown Armed Robbery Suspect

Police are investigating an armed robbery at a food store in Watertown on Saturday.

Officers said a woman entered the Checkers Food Store at the intersection of Falls Avenue and Sunnyside Avenue around 10:20 a.m. and showed a large knife and threatened the clerk.

She then grabbed cash from the register and threatened a customer who tried to intervene before fleeing in a vehicle on Falls Avenue towards Sylvan Lake Road, according to police.

Prior to entering the store, police believe she drove up on Edgewood Road, next to the store. She was driving a dark gray Mazda 6 with tinted windows, a loud exhaust and no front plate. The vehicle has less common, five-spoke rims and the rear plate may contain the number 1579, officers said.

The woman was wearing grey sweatpants, a dark sweatshirt and had a white towel covering her head under a winter hat and large sunglasses.

Neighbors are asked to check their residential surveillance footage for any useful images.

Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to call the Watertown Police Department at (860) 945-5200 or Crimestoppers at (860) 945-9940 for an anonymous cash reward. Police said they are only asking for information and do not want anyone to contact the woman.

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