The Taunton man arrested for using a syringe in a failed attempt to rob a Cumberland Farms store Monday night used his own mother as an unsuspecting getaway driver, cops said.
William Viera, 21, last known address 35 Longmeadow Road, is being held on $25,000 bail after his arraignment Tuesday in Taunton District Court. He also has a case pending related to April 20 charges of receiving a stolen motor vehicle and possession of heroin.
Viera turned himself in at police headquarters at 11:15 p.m. just over four hours after he allegedly threatened a cashier with a hypodermic needle and was chased from the store — after the employee reacted by throwing a step ladder and landed a direct hit on the would-be robber.
No one was reported injured as a result of the incident at 318 County St.
Police say Viera took advantage of his mother by instructing her to stop off at the Cumberland Farms for cigarettes. When he ran out of the store and hopped back into her car he allegedly told her the cashier had tried to beat him up.
Just as the Viera vehicle drove off the cashier enlisted the aid of a friend who was parked at the store, and the two caught up to the car and managed to get a plate number, cops said.
Within an hour the woman showed up at police headquarters with a younger child in tow, police said.
The emotionally distraught woman tearfully told cops that her son had just finished a rehabilitation program for his heroin addiction.
She also said that she ordered both her son and a friend of his out of her car after her husband called informing her of what he had just heard over his police scanner.
Police determined the woman’s account to be credible, and did not suspect she was aware her son had just tried robbing the convenience store/gas station when he ran out and told her to drive away.
Viera, according to police, during a subsequent interview admitted to using a needle to try to rob the store. He also stated that his mother was unaware of what had actually just transpired, police said.
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