Another female employee in Warren refuses to be robbed

Staff report

WARREN

An employee of the Summit Lounge on Tod Avenue Northwest became the second woman recently to take a stand against a criminal trying to rob her employer.

The woman, 54, was counting money when a man about 30 ordered a beer around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

When she turned to grab the beer, the man grabbed the cash, about $35, from her hand and ran from the bar.

The man, who was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans with very short hair and moving with a noticeable limp, got into a red pickup truck.

The employee got in the passenger side of the truck. The man tried to push her out, and they exchanged punches.

The woman put the truck in park and grabbed the keys from the ignition, telling the man he was not getting them back until he returned the money.

He gave back the money, the woman gave back the keys, and they went their separate ways, she said.

Though the woman provided police with a license plate number, it didn’t match, but police are hoping to use surveillance video to identify the suspect.

On June 6, an employee of the Subway restaurant on Parkman Road says she told a young man wearing a mask and saying he had a gun to “get lost” when he demanded money.

A co-worker filmed the encounter on her cellphone. No arrest has been made.