NORWICH – Police who arrested an Oxford man for robbing the South New Berlin Quickway at gunpoint also uncovered a stash of weapons from the suspect.

Joel L. Lewis was arrested Jan. 20 after police began searching for a suspect in the crime two and a half weeks earlier.

A masked Lewis allegedly entered the South New Berlin convenience store and demanded money from a cashier at around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7.

The only employee at the time of the robbery, the clerk said he was stocking shelves when he saw a man in winter clothes come in. That particular night, temperatures in the area were well below freezing and the clerk said it didn’t seem that unusual.

“I asked him, ‘How can I help you?’ He had his arms inside his jacket holding something and then he pulled out a rifle and said, ‘Gimme all your money, man,’” said the teenage clerk, who asked not to be identified.

Lewis, 22, 104 Parker Hollow Rd., Oxford, was indicted by the Chenango County grand jury Feb. 11 for first degree robbery, a Class B felony, and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon.