A worker surveys damage after a man who got into an argument with a convenience store clerk drove his vehicle into the front of an Arco Rebel store at 7100 W. Lake Mead Blvd., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Workers repair damage after a man who got into an argument with a convenience store clerk drove his vehicle into the front of an Arco Rebel store at 7100 W. Lake Mead Blvd., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Workers repair damage after a man who got into an argument with a convenience store clerk drove his vehicle into the front of an Arco Rebel store at 7100 W. Lake Mead Blvd., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Las Vegas police investigate where a man drove his vehicle into the front doors of an Arco Rebel store at 7100 W. Lake Mead Blvd., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A man who got into an argument with a convenience store clerk drove his vehicle into the front of the northwest Las Vegas business Thursday morning, police said.
Las Vegas police Lt. Esmeralda Boveda said at 5:30 a.m. a customer at the Arco Rebel store, 7100 W. Lake Mead Blvd., got into a dispute with a clerk.
“The suspect exited the store, got into his vehicle and drove it through the doors,” Boveda said.
The clerk was not injured but the doors were torn off. Officers blocked off the front of the store as a crime scene analyst took photos of the damage
The driver was taken into custody, Boveda said. The suspect’s and the circumstances of the arrest were not immediately available.
