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MOBILE, Alabama -- Around 13 hours after an armed robbery was reported police had their suspect behind bars -- although they didn't know it until a week later, when he turned himself in on Wednesday.
Christopher Allen Lee Nicholas, 22, was arrested on April 2 after he allegedly stole from the Walmart on Rangeline Road, said Mobile Police Department spokeswoman Ashley Rains. He was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail around 6:15 p.m.
Around 5 a.m. that day police said he walked into the Circle K at 5575 Highway 90, also known as Government Boulevard. He held up a clerk before fleeing with cash, Rains said.
Nicholas was released on bond around 10:25 p.m. on April 2, according to booking records. Less than two hours later, just after midnight on April 3, he struck again, police said.
He attempted to rob Myers Market at 6960 Theodore Dawes Rd. Again armed with a handgun, he left empty handed after a clerk warned him that she had pressed an alarm button, Officer Terence Perkins said in a news release.
He is facing two counts of first-degree robbery after surveillance cameras caught his image during the Myers Market robbery.
With his head bowed, Nicholas offered no comment on the motive behind the robberies as he walked to a waiting car en route to Mobile County Metro Jail.
He has no other known prior arrests.
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