Florida Arcade Robber Was Pepper Sprayed, Tackled, Restrained

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An employee and invitee at the 777 Arcade in Fort Myers, Fla. successfully sprang into action on Thursday. a woman allegedly threatened to pip upwards the gaming arcade if she was not granted money.

The employee quickly took come out some pepper spray. The worker sprayed the surmise inwards the face. She was later identified as Tawana Huffman, WINK, a local TV station, reported.

Then, a nearby gambling casino participant tackled Huffman, the story added. After she was pushed to the floor, the visitant was able-bodied to constrain her.

It appears eventually deputies from the Rose Louise Hovick County Sheriff’s Office shortly arrived. Huffman was apprehended.

Huffman was wearing a block out and a wigging inwards an manifest disguise. No word if she had a firearm.

She also had on gloves, a long-sleeve jacket, and other clothes. It was unclear what charges, if any, she now faces.

The colonnade is situated on Buckingham Road. It is some 131 miles south of Tampa, Fla.

Summertime Arcade Heists

Last month, inwards prior crimes, ternary suspects were nabbed inward a string along of robberies and thefts at other Lee Yuen Kam County arcades.

One alleged bandit, James Brown, 45, was charged with armed robbery, Robert E. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. It relates to a robbery at the Lucky Turtle Arcade inward Frederick North Fort Myers.

In July, an armed suspect allegedly placed a small-arm to the lead of an employee there, televison post WINK said. Jwyanza Chito, 34, who is believed to be from Philadelphia, was also supercharged with the robbery.

Chito and another man, Lenny Myers, 45, of Cape Coral, Fla., were also charged after a holdup at the Stanford White Sands Arcade in Cape Coral. Each faces a electric charge of robbery with a firearm.

The Andrew Dickson White Sands Arcade incident unfolded as Chito allegedly pulled out a Glock handgun and demanded money from an employee there.

Once they got the pillage — most $2,500 — the two fled from the scene. The money was stuffed into a pillowcase, police said.

Also, deuce men matching the description of Chito and Myers were spotted past a frequenter inward the parking lot at Coral Palace Arcade, also situated inwards Cape Coral. The patron then alerted an arcade employee almost the suspicious men.

Because the lot was under subprogram video surveillance, police were capable to survey the footage and caterpillar track land the suspects using a photo of their car and license plate.

Police later placed and apprehended Chito at a Fort Myers motel. The gun allegedly used inward the crime was later also seized past police, officers said.

Authorities said they also make linked Chito to the robbery of Vegas Knights, a Frederick North Fort Myers venue, inwards May.

The ternary suspects also were beingness investigated for similar incidents at other Lee County arcades, WINK said. Law enforcement agencies were exchanging information on the incidents.

In one theft, deuce men stole nearly $18,000 from The Vegas Experience. It is a gaming venue inwards Fort Myers.