Austin: Warrior spirit folks disarm Cedar Park robber.

[surprise_i'm_armed]

Austin, Texas

From the Statesman of May 5, 2010

Restaurant owners fight off would-be robber

A Cedar Park man is facing aggravated robbery charges after displaying a semi-automatic handgun at a North Austin restaurant but getting chased away by an alert owner, according to an arrest affidavit issued Tuesday.

Forrest Blackwelder-Baggett, 21, walked into the Delta’s Restaurant on Parmer Lane near Lamplight Village Avenue on Sunday evening and pointed the weapon at Ehsan Gharibi, the owner of the restaurant, the arrest affidavit said.

“Give me all the cash,” he told Gharibi, the arrest affidavit said.

After Blackwelder-Baggett pointed the weapon at a female employee trying to dial 911, Gharibi reached out for Blackwelder-Baggett, twisted his arm and took the gun away, the affidavit said.

The female employee, Nilo Arellano, then grabbed Blackwelder-Baggett’s fingers and bent them back and beat on his arm with her cell phone, the affidavit said. Gharibi then came around the counter to grab Blackwelder-Baggett, the affidavit said.

“Please let me go,” Blackwelder-Baggett told Gharibi, who then pushed him out the front door.

Blackwelder-Baggett then drove off in a vehicle, as Arellano wrote down his license plate, the affidavit said. Blackwelder-Baggett swerved the vehicle toward Arellano and then drove away, the affidavit said.

Cedar Park police responded to an address in Cedar Park that matched the vehicle, the affidavit said. He was taken into custody, and then put in the custody of Austin police, the affidavit said.

Blackwelder-Baggett is in the Travis County Jail on $50,000 bail, records show.

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[Medic218]

He got manhandled!!!
HA HA HA HA!!!!

[Purplehood]

The female employee, Nilo Arellano, then grabbed Blackwelder-Baggett’s fingers and bent them back and beat on his arm with her cell phone, the affidavit said. Gharibi then came around the counter to grab Blackwelder-Baggett, the affidavit said.

Cell phones are much more useful than I thought they were.

[DONT TREAD ON ME]

The female employee, Nilo Arellano, then grabbed Blackwelder-Baggett’s fingers and bent them back and beat on his arm with her cell phone, the affidavit said. Gharibi then came around the counter to grab Blackwelder-Baggett, the affidavit said.

Cell phones are much more useful than I thought they were.

You should look into the "cell phones" that are really tasers.

[foo.c]

The really stupid thing is there is a police station at Lamplight Village and Parmer Ln.

[longtooth]

"Give me all the cash" while he had a gun.

"Please let me go" w/o the gun.

In the car tried to run over them.

I can see this guy shooting a compliant victim being a good witness.
Never let go, never give up.

Good job.

[mctowalot]

Cell phone bayonet, anyone?

[mr.72]

The really stupid thing is there is a police station at Lamplight Village and Parmer Ln.

It's amazing how high-crime of an area that is even though there is a police station right there.

I used to do night mountain bike rides at Walnut Creek ... ran upon drug deals in progress more than once. Prostitution, car breakins, etc. are rampant even during the middle of the day at Walnut Creek ... just about three blocks from the police station.

But at least, unlike my favorite place to ride (Lake Georgetown), there is no way for the City to prevent me from going about armed at Walnut Creek.

[TLE2]

Cell phone bayonet, anyone?

I thought I saw an iphone case with a knife pocket, but maybe it was part of a dream...