2008 Woodie Awards
Father robs pizza restaurant where daughter works
Issue date: 7/16/08 Section: NEWS
DENTON, Texas (AP) - Police here say they will not file charges against a clerk whose parents and husband were charged with robbing the pizza restaurant where she worked, officials said.
Police said the clerk, Stephanie Martinez, didn't know they planned to rob the Pizza Patron Friday night.
While the robbery was in progress, Martinez discovered her father was the robber when another clerk struck him, knocking him out and knocking off his wig and sunglasses. He was later apprehended after witnesses followed the getaway pickup.
"Her husband told us she didn't know. He knew they were going to rob someplace but he thought it was going to be a convenience store," police Sgt. James Brett said in a story in Monday's online editions of the Denton Record-Chronicle.
A surveillance video corroborated Martinez's story. A police report shows the trio was in custody within 14 minutes of the robbery.
Jose Miguel Martinez, 26, was charged with aggravated robbery and is free on $50,000 bail. Benjamin Ramirez, 41, and Sonia Palacios, 38, are both charged with aggravated robbery. Bail was set at $50,000 each, but they are being held without bail on immigration violations.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press
Police said the clerk, Stephanie Martinez, didn't know they planned to rob the Pizza Patron Friday night.
While the robbery was in progress, Martinez discovered her father was the robber when another clerk struck him, knocking him out and knocking off his wig and sunglasses. He was later apprehended after witnesses followed the getaway pickup.
"Her husband told us she didn't know. He knew they were going to rob someplace but he thought it was going to be a convenience store," police Sgt. James Brett said in a story in Monday's online editions of the Denton Record-Chronicle.
A surveillance video corroborated Martinez's story. A police report shows the trio was in custody within 14 minutes of the robbery.
Jose Miguel Martinez, 26, was charged with aggravated robbery and is free on $50,000 bail. Benjamin Ramirez, 41, and Sonia Palacios, 38, are both charged with aggravated robbery. Bail was set at $50,000 each, but they are being held without bail on immigration violations.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press
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Gene
posted 7/16/08 @ 9:26 AM CST
Are you kidding me? The police is going on the word of her husband that she didn't know about the robbery? What do the police expect the husband to say? She wouldn't recognise the father's face or voice? Her father, mother AND husband are THIEVES and she knows nothing? Even my young nephew can see that she that she was the inside "man" for the robbery. (Continued…)
Sam
posted 7/16/08 @ 12:30 PM CST
Kick them out of the country. We don't need any dumb immigrants like this. Our immigration policy should attract the best and the brightest, not the thugs. (Continued…)
Robert
posted 7/18/08 @ 3:44 PM CST
"but they are being held without bail on immigration violations" - what a shock!!!!
patronoid
posted 7/20/08 @ 6:17 AM CST
immigrant pizza is amazing.
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