PARIS – Police are looking for a man accused of stealing money Thursday night from a Mobil station on Main Street where he had sought employment.

Lt. Mike Dailey of the Paris Police Department said a man stopped at the station around 9 p.m., grabbed money the clerk was counting before closing, and left the station.

The attendant recognized the man from him having filled out a job application for a gas pumping position last week, Dailey said. The application had a fictitious address and fictitious businesses, he said.

“The job application that was filled out is 100 percent false,” he said. “We don’t think there’s anything true on there.”

Dailey declined to release the name used on the application until it could be authenticated.

The attendant described the man as a white male over 6 feet tall, with a close cut beard and about 250 pounds. He was last seen running behind the nearby Save-A-Lot store in the Cornwall Shopping Plaza in a gray sweatshirt with white lettering and a gray hat.