LEWISTON – A Lewiston man who was hailed as a hero for rescuing an elderly man from a burning building landed at the top of Maine’s Most Wanted Web site when he failed to show up to begin a prison term for robbery.

Jeffrey Alexander Glover, 38, was sentenced last week to more than a year for robbing a Big Apple convenience store last year but was allowed to remain free over the weekend to get his affairs in order.

Glover failed to report to prison officials Monday, police said, and warrants for his arrest were issued Tuesday.

After a story about the search for Glover appeared Wednesday in the Sun Journal, police received calls tipping them to his whereabouts. When Glover learned that police were onto where he was staying, he turned himself in at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, said Lewiston Detective Brian O’Malley.

Glover was commended for heroism in October 2004 for hauling a man in his 70s from a smoke-filled Lisbon Street apartment. Glover was working at the time as a bouncer in a bar across the street.

Three months later, according to police, Glover went into the Big Apple, told the clerk he had a gun, took money from the clerk, threatened to kill her and then ordered her into a freezer.

He was arrested more than a month later because of leads that followed the release of a composite sketch of the robber.

Information about Glover was added Tuesday to www.mainemostwanted.com where his photo was placed atop the list. After he turned himself in, his listing was updated to show that he was captured.