A Romeoville man armed with a makeshift gun/bayonet-type weapon stole several hundred dollars from the 7-Eleven store on Romeo Road, Assistant Police Chief Steve Lucchesi said.

Ronald Maxwell Lacy, 21, of 942 E. Savannah, is accused of entering the store shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday and pointing a gun with a knife taped to the barrel at the clerk, Lucchesi said.

Lacy did not speak, but the clerk understood it to be a robbery, opened the cash register and gave him the money inside, Lucchesi said. Lacy then fled on foot.

The employee was able to give Romeoville police a description of the suspect, and a short time later officers spotted Lacy in the 200 block of Gordon Avenue, just a block away from the 235 Romeo Road store, Lucchesi said. Police recovered cash and the weapon, which turned out to be a BB-gun, he said.

Lacy's bike was also found behind the 7-Eleven, he said.

Lacy was charged with aggravated robbery, armed robbery and obstruction of justice/destroying evidence. He is being held in the Will County jail in lieu of $50,000 bond.

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