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<p>LUZERNE &#8212; Borough police on Wednesday identified Michael D. Losito as the man who robbed a downtown business on Tuesday at gunpoint</p><p>Police say they received a report of an armed robbery at 12:50 p.m. and responded to Chuck&#8217;s Newsstand, 74 Main St.</p><p>Owner Raj Patel told police a man entered the store, brandished a revolver and demanded cash.</p><p>Losito allegedly fled, discarded the weapon and was taken into custody several blocks away near the intersection of Sly and Miller streets after a brief foot pursuit.</p><p>The money taken in the robbery was recovered from Losito, and the Hanover Township Police K-9 Unit traced Losito&#8217;s scent from the area of arrest to the area where the gun was recovered, police said.</p><p>Officer Kevin Cielski made the arrest. Assisting were officers from Kingston, Edwardsville, Larksville, Forty Fort and Swoyersville police departments.</p><p>Losito, 31, with a last known address of Moosic Street in Wyoming, was arraigned before District Judge James Dixon on three counts of robbery. Unable to post $100,000 bail, he was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility. A preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 29 before District Judge David Barilla in Swoyersville.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Kingston and Luzerne police on Tuesday take a man, identified Wednesday as Michael D. Losito, into custody at Sly and Miller streets after he alledgedly robbed a newsstand on Main Street in Luzerne. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_TTL102115robbery2crop.jpg</photo0><caption0>Kingston and Luzerne police on Tuesday take a man, identified Wednesday as Michael D. Losito, into custody at Sly and Miller streets after he alledgedly robbed a newsstand on Main Street in Luzerne. </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Steve Mocarsky</p><p>smocarsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Steve Mocarsky at 570-991-6386 or on Twitter @TLSteveMocarsky.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Luzerne police ID suspect arrested in armed robbery of Chuck’s Newsstand