The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery late Saturday nightat the Pizza Hut on Palm Coast Parkway and Belle Terre Parkway, near Publix.
The sheriff’s office received a call to respond to a panic alarm at the Pizza Hut at 10:52 p.m., the sheriff’s office said in a release. While responding to the scene, deputies were informed by store employees that they had been robbed, allegedly by three black men who entered the business with their faces covered and armed with handguns.
The suspects demanded money from the employees. After obtaining an undetermined amount of cash, the suspects corralled the employees into an unlocked cooler and fled the area in an unknown direction. It is unclear if they did so on foot or in a vehicle. No one was physically injured. The business was not open to the public at the time of the robbery.
Less than a month ago–the night of Aug. 24–the parking lot adjacent to Pizza Hut was the scene of a double stabbing, as two men who’d gotten into an argument elsewhere brought their dispute to the parking lot and each ended up with stab wounds. Larkland Harris Jr., a Palm Coast resident with a long history of violence and imprisonment in state prison, was charged with the stabbing. He has been at the Flagler County jail since Sept. 2 on no bond.
Deputies are asking anyone with information about the Saturday night robbery to contact the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Investigative Services Division at 386-586-4801. Callers can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-888-277-8477 (TIPS) and be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000. Additional information will be provided as the investigation continues.
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Barry Hartmann says
That’s two robberies at gunpoint! (Staples and Pizza Hut) lets go Mr. Sheriff! It’s. getting bad out there.
Anonymous says
Palm Coast, fast going to the dogs.
Anonymous says
People need to get up off their lazy butts & EARN the money they want, not steal it. So sad what this world has come to
Anonymous says
Dont depend on the cops .
markingthedays says
Sounds like they should have locked the doors at closing time?!?!
jason says
markingthedays … Uhh, they close at 11:00 …. DA
biker says
Sounds similar to other robberies. Jimmy Johns Port Orange Friday night same MO. Several other robberies have been in the news last few weeks.with the very same MO. The perps hitting fast food joints at closing locking people in freezers. Sounds like a pattern
Cyd Weeks says
Yeah.. how’d they get in??
Rich Mikola says
Palm Coast…Thugs & Drugs. Getting dangerous to go out after dark.
pattmann19 says
“The business was not open to the public at the time of the robbery.”
ohrin says
INSIDE JOB OR FORMER EMPLOYEE. LIKE REALLY, WHO ROBS A PIZZA HUT AND HOW MUCH UNDISCLOSED MONEY COULD THERE HAVE BEEN, BEING THAT THE MAJORITY PEOPLE USE THEIR DEBIT CARD NOWADAYS. SMH.
ohrin says
BESIDES, PIZZA HUT IS NOT BANKING LIKE THE USE TO.
Jason says
“The sheriff’s office received a call to respond to a panic alarm at the Pizza Hut at 10:52 p.m.” …. They close at 11, what part of they were still open when this happened does everyone not understand?
markingthedays says
How should I know what time they close? I’m just going by the article which states “the business was not open to the public at the time of the robbery.”
markingthedays says
I can quote the article also.
“The business was not open to the public at the time of the robbery.”
Anonymous says
I agree wth is going on in Palm Coast ? A new sheriff in town more crime they hired more people as sheriffs what he better start doing his job, sheriffs! Starting to feel very unsafe in my own town now the coconuts carwash it’s Robbed we need police offices around everywhere instead of pulling people over for traffic violations for speeding because you can’t find a cop when you need one .
Layla says
For a town of this size, two armed robberies in a week is serious business. Not going to be long before someone is killed. Let’s hope it’s those doing the robbing. If you have thugs like that so easily holding up businesses here, this town is NOT safe and neither are your neighborhoods or your kids.
Antonio B. says
Reasons like this, is why I currently carry my concealed weapon; with a permit. Even though I’m military, I still don’t feel safe returning home after a deployment.