Police have charged two men in connection with a December 2016 armed robbery at the Turkey Hill convenience store in Nesquehoning, including the clerk who reported the theft.

Police filed charges against the alleged robber, 24-year-old Coty Dominick Frank, as well as Kyle Lee Tetreault, 20, who was working at the Turkey Hill at the time.Frank allegedly told police that Tetreault recognized him during the course of the theft, but that the clerk let him go through with the robbery because Frank agreed to pay him off.Police were initially called to the Turkey Hill on West Catawissa Street around 3 a.m. Dec. 3. Tetreault was working and provided a description of the robber, who was a white man wearing all black, a black ski mask and red gloves.Tetreault told police that the robber showed him a gun and ordered him to “put the money in the bag and no funny business.” He then demanded cigarettes, which Tetreault told police he retrieved from the back room.The robber then exited out of the back of the store.Police searched a home where Frank was staying in December, finding a pair of gloves and shoes identified as those used in the robbery.Frank denied involvement until he was arrested on Feb. 14 after allegedly stealing a vehicle in an unrelated incident.He told police that he used a plastic gun in the robbery, and that Tetreault recognized who he was.Frank said that he told Tetreault that he would pay him if he didn’t say anything.Frank said that after leaving the store, he took the cash and cigarettes to a home in Coaldale.Both men were charged on Tuesday. Tetreault, who faces two misdemeanor counts, is set to appear in court March 29.Frank has been locked up since Feb. 14 in lieu of $25,000 bail for the vehicle theft. He faces three felony counts including robbery.In the vehicle theft and hit-and-run crash that Frank was involved in on Feb. 14 in the area of West Railroad Street, Frank hit a 2008 silver Pontiac G6 and fled the scene.It was determined that the vehicle was stolen and smashed while Frank was attempting to purchase heroin from Brandice Boner, who was arrested on Feb. 16 on drug-related charges.