Lisle man charged with robbing Carol Stream gas station

A Lisle man was charged Friday with robbing a Carol Stream gas station at knife point early Thursday morning.

Paul Gleason, 34, whose last known address is on the 900 block of Inverness Road, had bail set at $250,000 by Judge Ann Celine O'Hallaren Walsh.

According to a news release from DuPage County State's Attorney Bob Berlin, a man later identified as Gleason approached the cash register at a Pilot gas station at 170 N. North Ave. and said to the clerk behind the counter, "I guess I'm going to have to rob."

The man took a folding pocket knife from his pocket, opened it and showed it to the clerk, the release said. The gas station manager, seeing what was happening, gave the man $120 from the cash register, and the man fled.

Carol Stream police officers found Gleason on a road near the gas station shortly after being called to the gas station and tried to arrest him. He ignored officers' commands and approached them while holding a black object in his hand, telling officers "just shoot me," Berlin's release said. He was taken into custody.

Gleason is scheduled to be arraigned May 27 in front of Judge O'Hallaren Walsh.