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UPDATE: Peterborough pizzeria owner describes robbery, assault on mother and brother
Peterborough police are investigating an armed robbery and assaults that took place Wednesday evening at the Pizza Peddler restaurant on Route 202 North.
According to Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard, two men entered the restaurant at about 8:20 p.m.
“While one suspect physically assaulted a male employee and forced him to the floor,” Guinard wrote in a press release, “the second suspect assaulted a female employee behind the cash register, threatened the female employee with a knife, demanding that she surrender all cash from the register. After collecting an undetermined amount of cash, the two suspects then fled the store and drove off southbound on Route 202.” The car they were driving was described as a silver four-door sedan with a loud exhaust system.
In the press release, one suspect was described as a white male, 6-feet, 1-inch to 6-feet 2-inches in height, with a thin build, wearing jeans and an off-white coat with a hood face mask covering the lower half of his face. The second suspect was described as a white male, 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a chubby build and a ruddy complexion, wearing a gold hooded sweatshirt and a black winter vest over the sweatshirt.
Chris Petrakos, owner of the Route 202 North pizzeria, said he usually closes his restaurant, at 9 p.m., with an employee, however, that night Petrakos was unable to be there so his mother and brother were closing. There were no customers in the pizzeria when the two men entered, beat up his mother and brother and stole a couple hundred dollars cash from the register, he said.
The day after, Petrakos’ mother and brother were bruised from the assault but back at work at the pizzeria.
“We want to put this behind us,” Petrakos said.
Both victims were checked and treated at the scene by ambulance personnel.
Thursday Guinard said police are actively investigating the violent crime.
“We have information we are following up on,” was all he would say on the
investigation.
Petrakos said he believes the robbers may be local.
“They recognized them. They’ve been in here before,” Petrakos said. “They were just kids. They weren’t very old. I think they are going to find the kids.”
Petrakos owns the building and leases space to other businesses, including Kate’s Cut and Peterborough Game and Hobby. He said he already has a burglar alarm for the building, but now plans to install surveillance cameras throughout the building for his employees as well as for his
tenants.
“Everyone deserves that,” he said.
Petrakos said Thursday that he will offer a $500 reward to anyone who provides information to police that leads to an arrest.
Anyone with information on the suspects or their vehicle is asked to call Peterborough Police at 924-8050.
February 4th 2010 at 10:23:19 AM
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