VENTURA : Gunman Robs Pizza Business
A lone gunman robbed a Ventura pizza parlor and forced employees into a freezer before fleeing, police said Monday.
The robber entered the Pizza Hut in the 2600 block of East Main Street through a rear door shortly after the restaurant closed at 9 p.m. Sunday, Sgt. Bob Anderson said.
Wielding a semiautomatic handgun, the thief took several hundred dollars from a cash register and safe and then ordered two managers, a cook and a maintenance worker to lie down in a large freezer, Anderson said.
The robber, whose face was covered with a dark handkerchief, told the employees to wait in the freezer as he made off with the cash, Anderson said.
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