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Reported gas station robber turns out to be sleeping employee

Officers with the Hall County Sheriff's Office and Gainesville Police Department prepare to enter the Exxon gas station at Dawsonville Highway and Shallowford Road in response to a robbery call shortly after midnight Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. A person inside turned out to be an employee who fell asleep and got locked in, according to officers on the scene. - photo by Nate McCullough

Officers with the Hall County Sheriff's Office and Gainesville Police Department prepare to enter the Exxon gas station at Dawsonville Highway and Shallowford Road in response to a robbery call shortly after midnight Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. A person inside turned out to be an employee who fell asleep and got locked in, according to officers on the scene. - photo by Nate McCullough

A call of a possible robbery shortly after midnight Wednesday at a Gainesville gas station ended not with gunfire or arrests, but with the interruption of an ill-timed nap.