Store guard beaten during robbery attempt www.privateofficer.com
ZACHARY LA. DEC 24, 2007 — Police arrested a Baker man accused of robbing a Waffle House restaurant at gunpoint Sunday morning and attempting to rob a Baker grocery earlier this month, a spokesman for Police Chief John Herty said.
Capt. David McDavid said restaurant employees gave a good description of the robber and police Lt. Darryl Lawrence stopped a car in which the suspect was riding on La. 19 near the Baker-Zachary city limits a few minutes after the holdup.
McDavid said Zachary police booked Antonio McGee, 22, 1900 Groom Road, Baker, at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison with armed robbery, resisting an officer and possession of a stolen firearm.
Officers recovered most of the cash taken from the Main Street restaurant, McDavid said.
McGee gave police a false name, but officers learned his identity when they found that McGee’s gun was stolen and Baker police had a warrant for his arrest, McDavid said.
Baker Police Chief Mike Knaps said McGee, a former employee of the Piggly Wiggly store on La. 19 in Baker, allegedly hid in a restroom at the store the night of Dec. 5 and jumped a security guard making his rounds after the store closed.
McGee is accused of taking the guard’s gun and hitting him in the face, then firing at least two shots in an unsuccessful attempt to get an employee to open the door to a room where the safe is kept, Knaps said.
One of the bullets narrowly missed the woman inside the room, who went to an adjoining room and hid, Knaps said.
Knaps said McGee then allegedly went to the back of the store, took the security guard’s cell phone at gunpoint and left through an emergency exit.
The Baker department’s arrest warrant accuses McGee of armed robbery, attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery, Knaps said.
Capt. David McDavid said restaurant employees gave a good description of the robber and police Lt. Darryl Lawrence stopped a car in which the suspect was riding on La. 19 near the Baker-Zachary city limits a few minutes after the holdup.
McDavid said Zachary police booked Antonio McGee, 22, 1900 Groom Road, Baker, at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison with armed robbery, resisting an officer and possession of a stolen firearm.
Officers recovered most of the cash taken from the Main Street restaurant, McDavid said.
McGee gave police a false name, but officers learned his identity when they found that McGee’s gun was stolen and Baker police had a warrant for his arrest, McDavid said.
Baker Police Chief Mike Knaps said McGee, a former employee of the Piggly Wiggly store on La. 19 in Baker, allegedly hid in a restroom at the store the night of Dec. 5 and jumped a security guard making his rounds after the store closed.
McGee is accused of taking the guard’s gun and hitting him in the face, then firing at least two shots in an unsuccessful attempt to get an employee to open the door to a room where the safe is kept, Knaps said.
One of the bullets narrowly missed the woman inside the room, who went to an adjoining room and hid, Knaps said.
Knaps said McGee then allegedly went to the back of the store, took the security guard’s cell phone at gunpoint and left through an emergency exit.
The Baker department’s arrest warrant accuses McGee of armed robbery, attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery, Knaps said.
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