Video captures robbery of Marin restaurant
Two brazen thieves in the early afternoon of Tuesday jacked the popular Marlin restaurant located in the vicinity of the Swing Bridge. It took less than two minutes when many patrons were having their lunch and health inspectors were on the premises. Unknown to the thieves, they were being recorded. Marion Ali has a report.
Marion Ali, Reporting
This camera affixed atop one of the counters inside the restaurant shows the movements of the brazen thieves at around three seventeen as is displayed at the bottom of the screen. This patron was lucky to have escaped the attack after he went to the counter to ask for some ice.
The waitress served him the ice and moments after he returned to the patio area, the two gunmen pounced. One of them who wore a black and white cap jumped on top of the counter in search of the cash pan while the other who wore a white hat, pointed a gun at the waitress. But when the robber found nothing under the counter he went over to another section of the restaurant – not shown on this tape – where they jacked patrons of their personal cash and valuables. Two public health inspectors who were conducting inspections at the business at the time discovered that they just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time as they themselves were relieved of their belongings.
When they were done with that, the robber who wore the cap and who carried the gun went behind the counter and placed the gun on the waitress, demanding the cash pan, he searched behind her until he found it. While all this was happening, the other one wearing the black and white cap went out on the patio area by the riverside but returned seconds later and exited. On the extreme left of the tape, the gunman is seen scouring through a patron’s purse before he left the business a minute and twenty seconds after they initiated the robbery.
Police are zeroing in on one particular suspect in connection with the incident; someone they say is no stranger to the law. Meanwhile, they are expected to file charges against someone already detained for the armed robbery against National Transports earlier this week. Marion Ali, for News Five.
