FOLLOW-UP: Police Charge Man With Robbing Laurel Woman at Gunpoint

It took less than a day for Anne Arundel County police to find the man they say .

That man is Nicholas J. Papanicolas, 21, of 3203 Orient Fishtail Road in Laurel, police said. He has been charged with one count each of armed robbery, robbery, first-degree assault, second-degree assault and theft, according to court records.

He's also facing two charges not related to the alleged robbery but stemming from his arrest: one count each of marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He is accused of robbing a woman who was getting out of her vehicle Tuesday night  on the 8300 block of Widgeon Place, which is located in the Anne Arundel County section of Laurel.

The woman told police that a man with a gun approached her, demanded money, got her wallet and cash and then fled. She told police that the man drove away, leaving eastbound on Oxbow Place in a vehicle described as an older model, white, four-door sedan.

The robbery was at 8:41 p.m. on March 29. At 12:06 p.m. the next day, Capt. Jerard Flemings – commander of the Anne Arundel Police Department's western district – was on patrol in the community where the robbery occurred when he saw a vehicle similar to the car the suspect had been described as driving, police said.

That vehicle eventually led investigators to Papanicolas and to his arrest, police said. He had the robbery victim's identification and credit cards in his residence, and the victim identified him as the man who robbed her, police said.