MOSES LAKE – A Moses Lake man was arrested early Tuesday morning on suspicion of robbing a gas station for a six-pack of beer, according to police officials.

Scott Thomas Linville, 42, reportedly walked into Ernie’s Truck Stop around 3:25 a.m. Tuesday and grabbed a six-pack of beer. When a gas station clerk told Linville that the store couldn’t sell him beer until 6 a.m., Linville reportedly replied that it “was OK, because he wasn’t buying (expletive),” according to police.

Linville then allegedly displayed a knife and walked out of the store with the beer in tow.

Linville was found in his car on Westshore Drive Northeast and arrested shortly before 4 a.m.

Dispatchers had been informed that a man was allegedly drunk, armed with a knife and threatening to kill people in that area, and deputies with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office had been dispatched.

Given the time and proximity to the robbery, a Moses Lake police officer was dispatched to Linville’s location and linked him to the earlier crime after reportedly finding a knife and beer cans in plain view inside the vehicle.

Linville was booked on charges of first-degree robbery, a class A felony.