A Watervliet man faces charges of kidnapping and armed robbery after being arrested in Coloma Township on Tuesday. Police Chief Randel Pompey says that around eleven AM, officers responded to a BP gas station at Center and Church Streets on a call of a man chasing a woman with a knife. Employees of the gas station and other witnesses held off the suspect -- 35 year-old Davy Dwayne Hall -- while police were contacted, and he fled shortly before their arrival. Not long after, officers arrested Hall when was found near a vacant apartment that he'd broken into. Chief Pompey says investigators learned that earlier that day, the victim -- Hall's girlfriend -- had been assaulted by him. He threatened to kill her and her friend if they didn't hand over their money and go out of state with him. Hall then allegedly forced both women at knifepoint into a truck and told them to drive south. The girlfriend persuaded him that they needed to stop for gas, and that's how they wound up at the BP station. Pompey says that if it hadn't been for the woman's quick thinking and the bravery of the store's employees, things could have turned out differently. Hall is in the Berrien County Jail with bond set at 250-thousand dollars. He was arraigned Wednesday on charges of kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, domestic violence, and illegal entry. He faces a preliminary examination in two weeks.
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