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Man caught in creek after reportedly robbing 4 gas stations

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Police have caught a man who reportedly has robbed four local gas stations, allegedly hitting all of them Monday morning.

Police said they caught him after he forgot where he parked his car and ran into a creek.

Ross Township police said the man couldn’t hide in Girty’s Run Creek for long which is how they caught him after his robbing spree.

Chezeq Morgan of Monroeville began on the Northside and before the sun was up either robbed or attempted to rob four gas station convenience stores, police said.

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According to police, at 1:20 a.m. he hit Northside, at 3 a.m. he was in Wilkins Township and within an hour it was Monroeville.

But it was his 5 a.m. holdup in Ross Township that police said got him caught.

“We were there within minutes,” Ross Township Police Sgt. Ben Dripps said.

Police told Channel 11 that like all of the other holdups, Morgan pretended to have a gun and ordered the cashier to hand over cash, but unlike the others, he put quite a scare into a customer.

“He basically just shoved him out of the way. I don’t think there were any injuries, just alarm on the customer’s part,” Dripps said.

Within half an hour, police say a man matching the robber's description was spotted hitchhiking just a few hundred yards from the creek. He was soaking wet, missing his shoes and had the stolen cash still in his hands, police said.