CINCINNATI -- Police say DNA helped them arrest a man nearly three months after he allegedly used a screwdriver to hold up a local gas station.
Police arrested 41-year-old Gilbert Waight of Forest Park on Wednesday afternoon in connection to a robbery back in March.
He is accused of using a screwdriver to threaten the clerks at a Shell Station on Kemper Meadow Drive on March 27.
Police allege Waight stole $135 during the attack. He is now facing charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping.
Police have also connected him to a similar robbery in Springdale on April 5, in which a man used a screwdriver to hold up the Deals Store on Princeton Pike. According to police documents, DNA evidence left at that scene helped link Waight to several robberies in and around Hamilton County.
According to police, Waight committed the robberies because "he has a crack problem."
Waight was arraigned Thursday morning in Hamilton County, where a judge assigned him a $2 million bond. That amount comes out to $500,000 on each of two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of kidnapping.
