(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Police responded to a robbery at a store on North Academy Boulevard on Monday, May 11, in which the suspect tried to get away with hundreds of dollars’ worth of merchandise and injured a loss prevention officer (LPO) while escaping, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD).
According to CSPD, at around 9 p.m. on Monday, officers responded to the 5200 block of North Academy, near Union Boulevard, where they learned that the suspect, later identified as 26-year-old Eric Silver, had put around $300 worth of merchandise in a backpack and began to leave without paying when the LPO tried to stop him. Silver allegedly swung a stolen aluminum bat at the LPO, who mostly blocked the hit, but received a minor hand injury.
Silver left the store and escaped in a vehicle, but was later found by CSPD officers and arrested for Aggravated Robbery and an unrelated felony warrant, according to CSPD. Officers found evidence from the robbery at the scene of the arrest…