Hector Manuel Hernandez is currently in custody at the Kleberg County Jail after he was arrested in connection with the robbery of the Javelina Mart convenience store Sept. 16.

Working alone, a man walked into the store shortly after it opened, flashed a weapon at the cashier and made off with some money before getting away in a white car.

Hernandez was apprehended by Kingsville Police Department officers and Texas Rangers at a convenience store in Corpus Christi (near Holly and Weber) Tuesday afternoon.

Law enforcement was able to track down Hernandez through surveillance camera videos which recorded the whole incident.

“We have the video of the store robbery and of the car leaving the area,” KPD Detective Sergeant Bradley Lile said today. “There are dozens of the same type of car in town, but one of our officers watched that video enough to say that he had seen a white car whose hubcaps matched the one from the white car on the video.”

Police also ran the Georgia license plate on the getaway car through their regional law enforcement database and discovered that Hernandez had been arrested for possession of cocaine in Nueces County an hour after holding up the Javelina Mart.

The man who robbed the store was dressed all in red and wearing a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap.

Hernandez was wearing some of that type of apparel when he was arrested.

“We found the officers involved in that arrest and got their dashboard video and saw that the suspect was wearing red shoes,” Lile said. “Then we got the video from the jail and saw the Cincinnati Reds cap on him as he was being brought in. He was out of jail before we had the information that someone had been arrested from that car.”

Police later found Hernandez’s residence and the final piece of evidence they needed.

“As the investigation continued last Friday afternoon, we ended up collecting the clothes he wore during the robbery at an apartment in Corpus Christi,” Lile said.

“We issued a warrant that night and he had been in hiding since then.”

Hernandez, who police said later confessed to the robbery, was trying to get out of town when he was caught.

“He was in a car enroute to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and he stopped at a convenience store where we were able to catch him,” Lile said.

“The car that he was in was filled with luggage, so if we did not get him yesterday (Tuesday) we were not going to get him,” the detective said.

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