The man and woman arrested following Thursday's gas station robbery are indeed known to each other, police confirmed Friday.
The woman was the clerk at the time the Shell gas station at the Fifth Avenue and Carney Street was robbed by the knife-wielding man Thursday morning at 10:15 a.m.
"The male has an extensive history, very well known to police," said Prince George RCMP spokesman Cpl. Craig Douglass. "She does not. We haven't had the occasion to come across her in a criminal matter."
The man was arrested shortly after he fled the scene on foot and backtracked to his vehicle where a child and dog were waiting. Police almost immediately pulled him over without incident and took the toddler into custody.
The second arrest was made back at the gas station when it was discovered that the registered owner of the car was the store's clerk.
No further information was disclosed about a small child also involved.
"We transferred care of the child to the Ministry of Children and Family Development," Douglass said. "We aren't going to comment on who the child's parents are. It doesn't affect the investigation, and the child is innocent in all of this."
A call was made to police from the clerk of the Shell station at the corner of Carney Street and Fifth Avenue that a man had just held the store up at knifepoint and gotten away with an amount of money.
However, police were already on their way due to a call from the public two minutes earlier that someone was pulling on a balaclava and approaching the gas station.
The female suspect was released on a promise to appear at court on a later date; the male suspect was held for a first appearance on Friday in Prince George Provincial Court.
