Philadelphia police have made an arrest after three businesses were robbed at gunpoint on three consecutive days this month.The string of robberies began Saturday, Nov. 23. At around 1 p.m., police responded to a robbery at the Exotic Convenience Store on the 6700 block of Castor Avenue.

Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect involved in an armed robbery at a deli in the 22nd District earlier this month.

Police say the suspect walked into a store on West York and Broad streets in the early morning hours of November 7. Detectives say he pepper sprayed the clerk, pulled out a gun and demanded money.

Law enforcement officials are expected to announce the arrest of an individual who, officials say, shot a worker at a Northeast Philly smoke shop and robbed at least two other stores in similar fashion.

A man in an Eagles jacket shot an employee of a Northeast Philadelphia smoke shop during an alleged robbery Sunday night, investigators said. The shooting happened at around 9 p.m. inside a store on Cottman Avenue,