BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An employee at a Bismarck gas station suffered a knife wound on a hand while trying to stop a robbery.

Police say a man walked into a Superpumper station Monday evening and asked to look at knives inside a case at the counter. Holding a knife, he then allegedly ordered two clerks to open the cash register.

Authorities say the suspect scuffled with the clerks when he went behind the counter to try to open the register himself, cutting one of them on the hand. The man then fled with some unpaid items.

Twenty-six-year-old suspect John St. Claire faces two felonies that together carry a potential maximum punishment of 25 years in prison. Court documents don't list an attorney for him, and a home telephone listing couldn't be found.

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