Customers looked at the disbelief while the Florida police arrested An employee of Chuck E. Cheese – In costume depicting the rodent who tries pizza – and accused her of using a stolen credit card, officials announced Thursday.
Jermel Jones, 41, worked on Wednesday evening when Tallahassee police confronted him with the Chuck E. Cheese on Sharers Road, according to the files of the law application.
“I caught his right arm while giving verbal instruction,” Chuck e, come with me Chuck E, “wrote the police officer of Tallahassee, Jarrett Cruz, in the report.
“Jones immediately started to strive by locking his two arms forward in front of his chest and tried to move away from my handle on his right arm. I gave verbal controls,” stop resisting, you are detained “.”
Cruz told the mascot not to make a stage in front of the officer and his partner “made minor physical efforts” to handcuff him, the police said.
Victim Michelle Allen told the police that she had been at her child’s birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese on June 28 and had quickly spotted fraudulent accusations in the stores she did not attend, police said.
She went to one of these stores and obtained security images, corresponding to her card was wrongly used, the police said. She recognized the employee of Chuck E. Cheese making a purchase at the store at the same time as one of these fraudulent scannings, the police said.
Cruz went to this location of Chuck E. Cheese and identified Jones, not in costume, as the Allen employee suspected of stealing his card. The officer briefly discussed with Allen, whom he described as “very nervous” during their conversation.
Cruz left the restaurant to give Allen and another officer. When the police returned inside, Jones was gone but a Chuck E. Cheese mascot was now in the restaurant.
Cruz asked another employee if she knew where Jones was going, and if the person in the mouse was in fact, she “shaken her head up and down, indicating yes”.
The police have read his warnings from Miranda to the mouse before he inspired that he never stole from anyone’s credit.
“I don’t have a card on me, I don’t use anyone’s cards but mine,” said Jones, according to Cruz’s arrest report.
The police found the victim’s visa card in the left pocket of Jones and a receipt of a smoke store where one of the fraudulent purchases was made, police said.
Jones was sentenced to suspicion of theft, possession of an identity document from another person without consent and fraudulent use of a credit card twice or more.
Friday, he was not immediately clear if Jones had hired or received a criminal defense lawyer to speak on his behalf.
He bailed out from Leon County prison Thursday after putting a bond of $ 6,500, a representative part of the prison. A mobile number listed on the stock market associated with Jones does not accept any call on Friday.
“We are aware of an incident involving a part-time employee arrested on Wednesday at our location in Tallahassee,” a spokesperson for Chuck E. Cheese said on Friday in a statement.
“We have taken the appropriate measures concerning the employee in question.”
John Filippelli,, A Christmas O’Conor And Helen Kwong contributed.
