Man who carried out armed robbery with no pants on at Montana gas station jailed

Samuel James Collins, 34, is seen in surveillance footage staging armed robbery at a Town Pump gas station in Townsend, near Great Falls - (U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Montana)

A man who carried out an armed robbery at a Montana gas station while wearing no pants has now been jailed.

The bizarre robbery unfolded on October 16 2023 when Samuel James Collins barged into a Town Pump gas station in Townsend, near Great Falls, wearing a hooded blanket coat, but no pants or shoes, and fired a round from a pistol, prosecutors said.