Village Police have arrested 44-year-old man who they say held up a Pinecrest gas station and robbed a bank customer.

Police say Christopher Roy Rollo, who lived in an apartment at 15389 S. Dixie Highway, stuck up the Chevron gas station, at 12795 S. Dixie Highway, at about 12:30 p.m. on August 2.

A Pinecrest Police Department employee saw Rollo as he jumped in his car and raced away from the Chevron station after allegedly committing the armed robbery.

Village officers say they chased Rollo, but lost him after he drove "with total and wanton disregard for the safety of other motorists."

Police later found Rollo's vehicle abandoned at 12655 S. Dixie. They towed the car and impounded it..
Three days later, on August 5, Rollo was standing at a bus stop at SW 152nd Street and S. Dixie Highway when a passing Village detective recognized him. Pinecrest and Miami-Dade police were called and they attempted to arrest Rollo, but he fled on foot. After a short chase, he was taken into custody.

Police fingered Rollo as the Chevron bandit and charged him with the crime, along with another armed robbery on July 9 of a person leaving an ATM machine at the Bank of America branch at 13593 S. Dixie Highway.

Rollo was lodged in the Miami-Dade County Jail and charged with two counts of armed robbery and aggravated assault, burglary, fleeing and eluding police, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

"I am extremely pleased and proud of the good police work performed by our employees both on the day of the incident and the day of the apprehension," said Village police chief John Hohensee. "Because of this excellent work a dangerous criminal with a lengthy record has been removed from the streets."