Two masked men jumped the counter of a RaceTrac, stole over $8,700 worth of cigarettes and led police on a pursuit across town, police said.
Police responded to an active robbery at the gas station on Old Hammond near Cedarcrest Avenue on Oct. 13 at 2:57 a.m. The clerk said that while checking a customer out, two men entered wearing ski masks, jumped over the counter, and stole $8,702 worth of various cartons of cigarettes, according to police documents.
The two men returned to a white Chevrolet Tahoe waiting outside and fled the scene, police said. Police pursued the car across town, where it drove through the Parkview BREC park and stopped in the driveway of a house on North Parkview Drive…