RALEIGH - Erik Greyson Huggins of Raleigh should have been in a drug treatment program. Instead, Raleigh police say he went on a six-day robbery spree.

Police on Saturday arrested Huggins, 28, and charged him with more than a half-dozen robberies of hotels and motels in Raleigh and Cary.

Raleigh detectives detained Huggins early Saturday in the 700 block of Ileagnes Drive in South Raleigh, said Jim Sughrue, a police spokesman.

Investigators charged Huggins with four counts of armed robbery, four counts of common law robbery, two counts of simple assault, two counts of assault on a female, one count of attempted larceny and one felony count of failure to appear in drug treatment court.

In four of the robberies, witnesses told police a man wielded either a black knife, a cutter or a semi-automatic firearm. The physical description in all of the robberies was of a white male with a slender build who covered his face with a white cloth or towel.

Raleigh police say on Friday Huggins robbed the Red Roof Inn on South Saunders Street, the Sheraton in downtown and the Comfort Suites on Capital Boulevard. He also is charged with robbing the city's Wingate, Comfort and Rodeway inns, police reported.

Cary police charged him with the Nov. 23 armed robbery of the Hilton Doubletree on Caitboo Avenue, and Garner police charged him with robbing the Play-n-Trade retail store on East Timber Drive the same day, court records show.

Huggins is being held under $2.2 million bail at the Wake County jail.