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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Jail, cane for BK worker in arm robbery[/TD]
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http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_696084.html
<IMG class=stimage alt="" width=330> [h=4]Charlie Cabo Perez[/h]
A BURGER King assistant manager pulled off a $6,000 armed robbery at one of the fast food chain抯 restaurants.
Charlie Cabo Perez (right) later tried to do it again at another branch but fled empty handed when he suspected that one of the staff had called the police.
The 32-year-old Filipino ?who also misappropriated $800 of his employer抯 money ?was yesterday sentenced to five years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane.
Perez started off by robbing the chain抯 Esplanade Xchange branch on April 16, the court heard.
He turned up just before closing time posing as a building maintenance officer, armed himself with a bread knife, then walked up to assistant manager Vito Lorielyn Mesajon. He asked her to read three words he had written by hand in a book: 揙pen the safe?
The robber then took $6,056 and tied up the victim, taping her mouth and legs.
A month and a half later, Perez tried to stage another armed robbery at the Burger King in International Plaza.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Charlene Yang said he got a cashier in an arm lock and then led her to the kitchen at knifepoint.
He told the manager, Mr Dass Subramaniam, 28, to open the safe.
Just then, the cashier saw a colleague about to report for duty and signalled to her not to enter and to call the police.
When Perez saw this, he got worried and fled towards Tanjong Pagar MRT station.
He next removed his surgical mask and cap and changed into a black jacket and trousers before boarding a train.
Later that day, he headed to Changi Airport, where he was arrested.
Perez pleaded guilty to armed robbery, attempted armed robbery and misappropriating money from the branch where he worked, at the National University of Singapore.
He apologised to the people of Singapore and said he regretted his actions.
He had become depressed after separating from his wife and had to support his four-year-old autistic daughter.
Ms Yang said that if Perez had succeeded in the robbery in the central business district, he would have caused great public disquiet and tarnished Singapore抯 image.[/TD]
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<IMG class=stimage alt="" width=330> [h=4]Charlie Cabo Perez[/h]
A BURGER King assistant manager pulled off a $6,000 armed robbery at one of the fast food chain抯 restaurants.
Charlie Cabo Perez (right) later tried to do it again at another branch but fled empty handed when he suspected that one of the staff had called the police.
The 32-year-old Filipino ?who also misappropriated $800 of his employer抯 money ?was yesterday sentenced to five years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane.
Perez started off by robbing the chain抯 Esplanade Xchange branch on April 16, the court heard.
He turned up just before closing time posing as a building maintenance officer, armed himself with a bread knife, then walked up to assistant manager Vito Lorielyn Mesajon. He asked her to read three words he had written by hand in a book: 揙pen the safe?
The robber then took $6,056 and tied up the victim, taping her mouth and legs.
A month and a half later, Perez tried to stage another armed robbery at the Burger King in International Plaza.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Charlene Yang said he got a cashier in an arm lock and then led her to the kitchen at knifepoint.
He told the manager, Mr Dass Subramaniam, 28, to open the safe.
Just then, the cashier saw a colleague about to report for duty and signalled to her not to enter and to call the police.
When Perez saw this, he got worried and fled towards Tanjong Pagar MRT station.
He next removed his surgical mask and cap and changed into a black jacket and trousers before boarding a train.
Later that day, he headed to Changi Airport, where he was arrested.
Perez pleaded guilty to armed robbery, attempted armed robbery and misappropriating money from the branch where he worked, at the National University of Singapore.
He apologised to the people of Singapore and said he regretted his actions.
He had become depressed after separating from his wife and had to support his four-year-old autistic daughter.
Ms Yang said that if Perez had succeeded in the robbery in the central business district, he would have caused great public disquiet and tarnished Singapore抯 image.[/TD]
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