Robbery Spree in Pensacola

Florida Pensacola Deputies hunt for two robbery suspects who knocked over two businesses and a truck driver.

by Bill Riales

Published: Tue, October 27, 2009 - 5:16 pm CST Last Updated: Tue, October 27, 2009 - 5:29 pm CST

PENSACOLA, Florida - Escambia County, Florida investigators are looking for two black men who reportedly robbed a restaurant, a convenience store and a truck drive in the early morning hours Tuesday. Sgt. Ted Roy with the Escambia County Sheriff's Department described the men as five feet, nine inches tall and about 170 to 180 pounds. They wore jeans, a windbreaker, and may have changed disguises to obscure their faces between robberies.

Their first target was the Waffle House restaurant on Highway 29 in Pensacola. Investigators said the ordered a customer and employee to the floor and took off with the cash drawer. While making their escape, Roy said they also robbed a truck driver at the Howard Johnson's Inn next door to the restaurant. Then while investigators and K-9 units were at that scene, two men who matched the description of the Waffle House robbers reportedly robbed customers and a clerk at a Tom Thumb convenience store on Pine Forest Road. All three robberies happened with in 30 minutes of each other starting at about 4:45 am.

"We still don't know if they were the same suspects that have done some previous robberies--still looking into that trying to do some comparisons of how they walk and all that," said Sgt. Roy.

Both men, he said, used semi-automatic handguns in the robberies. Including cashiers and customers at the businesses, seven people were robbed at gunpoint. None of them were injured. The robbers may have gotten away with about $1000.

"Not worth the probably 20 to 30 years their going to get when they get caught," says Roy.

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