Ohio man arrested seven months after Naples store holdup

An Ohio man was arrested Tuesday on a warrant for armed robbery in connection with an April holdup of a 7-Eleven on U.S. 41 North in Naples.

Nikolas L. Evans, 23, of Junction City, faces a charge of felony armed robbery. He was being held on $150,000 bail.

Evans walked into the convenience store April 3 and approached a female clerk who was working on a display, Collier County Sheriff's Office reports stated.

Evans asked her for a plastic bag, which caused her to go behind the counter, reports stated.

Then he demanded she fill it with cash. When the clerk refused, Evans lifted his shirt to reveal a handgun in his waistband and said, "You better," the report explained.

A customer who saw a suspicious man outside the store that April night made his purchase and went to his car, then noticed the store was being robbed. He saw a man fleeing the store and enter the nearby Mel's Diner parking lot, but he couldn't get a license plate. Nearly seven months later, deputies obtained a warrant for the armed robbery.

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