A clerk at the Corner Food Mart on Silver Lane in East Hartford was shoved to the ground Tuesday night after a masked man jumped the counter and emptied the register, police say. Officers responded to the store at around 10:53 p.m. and learned the suspect had already fled on foot with roughly $500 in cash.
According to WFSB, officers were called to the Corner Food Mart located on Silver Lane at around 10:53 p.m. The clerk told police that a man with his face covered walked in and asked for rolling papers, and as the clerk turned to retrieve them, the man jumped the counter, pushed the clerk and grabbed cash from the open register drawer. East Hartford police placed the robbery in the 200 block of Silver Lane, per CT Insider.
Suspect Fled Southwest With Cash in Hand
Police said the man left the store on foot, heading southwest, after taking about $500 from the drawer. Officers deployed a K-9 to try to track him down, but the effort came back negative, and the suspect remained at large as the investigation continued, per the same station's report.
East Hartford police said the investigation into the robbery is ongoing and have asked anyone with information to come forward. Tipsters can reach the East Hartford Police Department at 860-528-4401.
Not the First Holdup Reported on the Same Street
The Tuesday night robbery isn't the only holdup reported along Silver Lane in recent memory. In August 2025, an armed robbery was reported at a Mobil station in the 400 block of the same street, according to the Stamford Advocate. In that earlier case, police said one suspect displayed a knife and stole the cash register box after a clerk refused to hand over free gas, and the men got away with about $300 and cigarettes.
In the 2025 Mobil robbery, a K-9 track initiated near an abandoned car by the gas station also turned up nothing, and the suspects remained at large as of 9:55 that morning, the outlet reported.
