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Man robs store, then waits for police

Jody Lawrence-Turner
Staff writer
November 21, 2008

A 67-year-old man robbed a downtown gas station, police said, then waited for Spokane officers to arrest him.

At 6:24 a.m., John Paul Adams walked into the Shell station at Third Avenue and Maple Street with a loaded .22 rifle, laid it on the counter and said, “Give me what you got,” said Spokane Police Officer Tim Moses.

When the clerk opened the till, the man grabbed several hundred dollars then told the clerk to call the cops, Moses said. Adams went outside, unloaded his gun, leaned it against a phone booth and “then stood there and waited for us.”

Adams was booked into Spokane County Jail on one count of first-degree robbery, Moses said.

Adams wouldn’t tell police what his motivation was, Moses said. Adams was not homeless. Police impounded the truck he was driving.

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