WILTON – Less than 12 hours after an early-morning armed robbery Wednesday, police arrested the man suspected of the crime, interim police Chief Charles Keene said.

David Moody, 38, of Jay was arrested by Jay police on a warrant after police were called to a residence because of a disturbance, Keene said. When police got there, they saw a tan Saab resembling a car seen at the Wilton Big Apple, the scene of the robbery.

Wilton police were called to the convenience store just before 5 a.m. Wednesday morning, after a man with a handgun came in, asked the cashier for money from the register, and left. Neither the cashier nor the one other person in the store at the time – a Dunkin’ Donuts employee – were injured, Keene said.

Descriptions of the man and photographs from a security camera mounted on one of the Big Apple’s walls showed the suspected robber was a 6-foot-tall white man with a heavy build, wearing blue pants and a gray sweatshirt with blue stripes. His face was obscured by sunglasses in the video.

After Jay police arrested Moody Wednesday, they searched his property and found the weapon seen in the video, some of the cash taken from the register, the clothes the suspect was wearing and the sunglasses, Keene said.

He was taken to the Franklin County jail Wednesday night, but would not be charged with the robbery until later Wednesday evening, Keene said.