Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Police were called shortly after 5:30 p.m. Feb. 14 to the fine chocolate maker’s retail store at 1709 Wayne Ave.
The suspect, later identified as Pitts, had women’s hosiery covering his face and hands when he reportedly handed a note written on a small white piece of paper that read, “This is not a joke! Put all of the money that you have in your cash register into this bag, or else!,” Dayton Police Department spokesman James Rider said previously.
A woman who called 911 said everyone in the store got him to leave.
“The lady running the cash register screamed at him and said, ‘You’re not going to rob me,’” the woman told the dispatcher.
The suspect did not show any weapons and left before police arrived. However, an employee spotted the suspect walking on Wayne Avenue toward Wyoming Street and alerted police.
Officers found Pitts in front of Wendy’s on Wayne Avenue and confirmed he was the suspect captured on security camera footage. He had a bag that contained panty hose, police said.
The man was intoxicated and reportedly confessed to the robbery and said he was sorry, Rider said.
No attorney is listed for Pitts, who is held on $10,000 bail in the Montgomery County Jail.
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