(KAIR)--An all day investigation Wednesday led to the early evening arrest of an Atchison man, blamed for the early Wednesday morning armed robbery of an Atchison apartment complex management office. 

Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, in a Wednesday evening release, said investigators, by late afternoon, had identified 39-year-old Gale Hewitt as the suspect. 

Hewitt was spotted behind the wheel of a Chrysler PT Cruiser, in the area of 6th and M Streets, shortly before 5:00 in the evening. Getting out of the vehicle, police saw he was holding a handgun as he ran into a wooded area.
Atchison Police were joined at that location by Atchison County Sheriff’s Deputies and Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers, with a perimeter secured. About eighteen minutes later, Hewitt was in custody, arrested north of the wooded area, just south of Harper Drive, in the 500 block, through the assistance of a KHP K-9. 

Following his arrest, Hewitt was transported for hospital treatment of minor injuries, and later transferred to the Atchison County Jail. 

Hewitt faces charges for burglary, aggravated assault, theft, theft of a firearm, criminal damage to property, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, criminal possession of a firearm by a felon, and felony interference with law enforcement.

Hewitt is accused of the burglary of the office at Atchison’s Massasoit Apartments, in the 200 block of North 3rd Street, allegedly pointing a handgun at an apartment employee who walked-in on the 4 a.m. burglary in  progress.

The employee escaped safely and called police, with Hewitt accused of stealing cash and a handgun, prior to going to the home of a residence in the 200 block of North 4th Street, around 90 minutes after the office burglary. Wilson said Hewitt, at the residence, confronted the occupant, displaying a gun during a conversation that ended with no one hurt, and nothing stolen.