REHOBOTH, Mass. — A man accused of threatening to blow up a gas station in Rehoboth has been charged with a series of crimes after an hours-long standoff Thursday.
The Cumberland Farms on Winthrop Street was evacuated around 7 a.m. when police say a man threatened an employee.
All of the gas pumps were also turned off.
Around 10 a.m., a Cumberland Farms official told FOX25 they believed only the suspect and police were on site and SkyFox was over the scene just before noon as police arrested 38-year-old Benjamin Kimball.
Kimball, of North Attelboro, allegedly went into the store and threatened an employee, then grabbed the store's phone and ran outside. During the standoff, he allegedly told a police officer he had a gun and a bomb, then tried to light one of the gas hoses on fire.
Before he was taken into custody, Kimball tried to drive off in his SUV and rammed vehicles that had been used to block him in.
Kimball got out of his car and tried to run from police officers, but was eventually brought down by a K-9 and taken into custody. He was transported from the scene in an ambulance.
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