Acting on an anonymous tip, police arrested a Prince George?s County man Wednesday night, charging him with Friday?s armed robbery of a fuel tanker truck in south Baltimore.
Willie Orlando McKinnon, 42, of Hyattsville, is charged with armed robbery, carjacking and various weapons charges in connection with the heist that raised fears of terrorism up and down the East Coast.
Baltimore and Prince George?s County police arrested him after 6 p.m. at the home of another person in Hyattsville. McKinnon had a .45 caliber handgun in his possession at the time of the arrest, according to city police spokesman Sterling Clifford.
Police recovered the truck Friday in the District after it was stolen at gunpoint from a fueling station in south Baltimore.
The truck, loaded with 7,100 gallons of diesel fuel when it was stolen, turned up unoccupied and empty in Southeast Washington about 1 p.m., authorities said.
The discovery came eight hours after a man brandishing a semiautomatic weapon forced the driver from the truck at a Curtis Bay fueling station, then fled toward Interstate 95, police said.
The truck is owned by Baltimore Tank Lines of Glen Burnie Inc. The driver was not injured.
Police said they have ruled out terrorism as a motive for the crime, but are continuing to investigate the incident.
“There is absolutely no connection to terrorism,” Clifford said.
