A robbery suspect was arrested Friday afternoon, sleeping in a car parked two blocks from Westminster Police headquarters.
The man, later identified as Paul McQue Webb, 26, was spotted by a police sergeant in a car parked at 92nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard. Police said he had a substantial laceration on his left hand, which needed medical attention, and appeared to be under the influence of drugs.
Police determined that Webb matched the description of an armed robber who held up a Westminster pharmacy Friday morning and left behind a trail of blood.
At the time, police theorized that the robber may have accidentally shot himself while trying to conceal the gun.
A Walgreens near West 110th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard had been robbed about 9:20 a.m., according to a Westminster Police Department media release.
During the incident, victims noticed the robber was bleeding “from an abdominal wound on his right side,” police said at the time.
He showed a handgun and demanded narcotic pain pills.
“Blood had soaked through his clothing and pooled on the floor where he was standing,” police said.
Officers tracked a blood trail out of the store into the parking lot where it disappeared.
Webb was being held at the Jefferson County Jail facing charges including aggravated robbery of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and driving while impaired by drugs.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
