Restaurant Robbed Of Cash, Tape

A man with a McDonald’s patch on his coveralls robbed the Jack in the Box restaurant on North Pines Road early Saturday, escaping with cash and leaving three employees locked in a break room.

The suspect also swiped the video tape from the restaurant’s surveillance system, sheriff’s deputies said.

The man wore a nylon and a black ski mask on his head and was armed with a large, dark gun with a tapered barrel, employees told police.

He was sweating and shaking, they said, and repeatedly poked the gun into their backs as he gave them orders.

The man entered the fast-food restaurant at 1505 N. Pines just before it closed late Friday.

He jumped over the front counter into the kitchen, showed the three employees his gun and told two of them to get into the break room. He then locked them inside.

The suspect told the shift leader to lock the restaurant’s doors, open the cash register and unlock the office safe. He then hit the glass front of the surveillance system’s VCR holder and told the employee to remove the tape and give it to him.

The robber locked the supervisor in the break room with the others and left, sheriff’s deputies said. One of the workers crawled through a panel in the ceiling, dropped down into the hallway and unlocked the others.

The workers called police around 12:30 a.m. Saturday. They described the suspect as a black male, about 5-foot9 and 140 pounds.

He was wearing black leather boots, dark gloves, a black ski mask and coveralls. His gun was dark with a wooden grip and about a foot long. The McDonald’s patch was over his left breast.

No arrests have been made.

, DataTimes