LEWISTON – A store surveillance camera led police to a suspect Monday after a Sunday night robbery at the Big Apple on Main Street.

Paul Moreau, 35, of 7 Shawmut St., was charged Monday afternoon with robbery after a police officer said he recognized him from videotaped footage from the store.

Investigators said Moreau walked into the Big Apple about 10:30 p.m. Sunday and threatened a store clerk. The clerk was not hurt, but the robber made off with an undisclosed amount of money as well as cigarettes, police said.

Officers searched the area after the robbery was reported Sunday night but the suspect was not found. Later, detectives began to review footage from the security camera mounted inside the 248 Main St. store.

Trevor Campbell, a Lewiston police officer currently working with the Central Maine Violent Crime Task Force, recognized the man in the video as Moreau, police said.

Police are familiar with Moreau from past criminal dealings, investigators said. At the time of the robbery, Moreau was on probation after being convicted of threatening a district attorney and a Superior Court justice.

In the spring of 2003, Moreau was being sentenced for a drug possession conviction. Angry with the sentence, Moreau told his probation officer that when he got out of jail, he was going to get a gun and kill a district attorney and Superior Court Justice Thomas E. Delahanty II, according to police and court officials.

Moreau was charged with criminal threatening and time was added to his jail sentence. After he was released, he was ordered to stay away from the people he had threatened.

On Monday, after further reviewing the videotape from the Big Apple, police found Moreau and brought him to the police station for questioning about the robbery. He was arrested and taken to the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, where he remained Monday night.

“It was good police work all around,” said Deputy Chief Michael Bussiere. “It was obviously helpful that the surveillance cameras were working at the store.”