1 March 2023
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Police arrested a man on Wednesday in relation to a robbery investigation.
Edward Stanley, a spokesman for the Topeka Police Department, reports that Dawson L. Upton, 23, of Topeka was taken to the Shawnee County Department of Corrections for the following charges:
Robbery
Criminal threat
Theft by threat
Intimidation of witness/victim
Stanley said police were dispatched on March 1 at 7:46 a.m. to the 1300 block of SW 37th St. after receiving a call about an unwanted subject. Police found the subject in question, who was identified as Dawson, and learned that he was a person of interest in a robbery reported on Dec. 31, 2022.