NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
October 9, 2007
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

OCSO INVESTIGATING ARMED ROBBERY OF SONIC RESTAURANT

    The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a suspect who robbed the Sonic restaurant at 461 Mary Esther Boulevard Sunday, October 7th.

     A white male wearing a camouflage hooded mask and carrying what one employee says may have been a pellet gun came in a door on the west side of the business around 4 a.m. He demanded money and took cash from a worker and “changer trays”. He then ran out and jumped a fence behind the business.

     The suspect is described as a tall, thin white male with blue eyes. He was hearing the mask, a grey long sleeve shirt, blue jeans and black gloves.

      Anyone with information on the crime is asked to call the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office at 850-651-7400 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers at 850-863-TIPS.

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