Man Robs Ashford Gas Station at Knifepoint

State police are looking for a man who robbed a Cumberland Farms in Ashford at knifepoint earlier this month.

Police said the man held a clerk at knifepoint at the gas station store at 33 Pompey Hollow Road around 11:10 p.m. Sept. 13.

The employee suffered "a very minor superficial injury from contact with the knife," according to police, who said the robber got away with cash and cigarettes.

He was last seen driving eastbound on Route 44 in an older-model silver four-door sedan, according to police.

State police ask anyone with information to call Troop C in Tolland at 860-896-3200 and reference case No. 15-00548249.

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