Customers observed in disbelief when Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee in costumes that portrayed the pizzeria rodent, and accused him of using a stolen credit card, the authorities said Thursday.
Jermel Jones, 41, worked on Wednesday night when the police in Tallahassee faced him at Chuck E. Cheese in Sharer Road, according to police records.
“I grabbed his right arm as he gave the verbal instruction, ‘Chuck E, come with me Chuck e’,” wrote police officer from Tallahassee Jarrett Cruz in the report.
“Jones immediately began to tension his two arms forward in front of his chest and tried to get away from my grip on the right arm. Tell the verbal commands: ‘Stop resisting you, you are being stopped.’ ‘
Cruz told the pet not to make a scene before the officer and his partner “made a minor physical effort” to handcuff him, police said.
The victim Michelle Allen told the Police that he had been at her son’s birthday party in Chuck E. Cheese on June 28 and soon saw fraudulent charges in the stores she does not frequent, police said.
She went to one of those stores and obtained security images, combining the time in which her card was wrongly used, police said. He recognized Chuck E. Cheese employee making a purchase in the store at the same time as one of those fraudulent blows, police said.
Cruz went to that location of Chuck E. Cheese and identified Jones, did not disguise, as the employee Allen suspected that he stole his card. The officer spoke briefly with Allen, whom he described as “very nervous” during his conversation.
Cruz left the restaurant to consult with Allen and another officer. When the officers entered again, Jones had left, but a pet of Chuck E. Cheese was now in the restaurant.
Cruz asked another employee if she knew where Jones was going, and if the person in the mouse outfit was in fact, “shook his head up and down indicating that.”
The officers read the mouse their warnings of Miranda before insisting that he never stole anyone’s credit.
“I don’t have any card, I don’t use anyone’s cards but mine,” Jones said, according to Cruz’s arrest report.
The officers found the victim’s visa card in Jones’ left pocket and a smoke store receipt where one of fraudulent purchases was made, police said.
Jones was reserved under the suspicion of theft, possession of the identification of another person without consent and the fraudulent use of a credit card two or more times.
He was not clear immediately on Friday if Jones had hired or was assigned a criminal defense lawyer to speak in his name.
On Thursday he left Leon’s county jail after publishing a bail of $ 6,500, a representative side of the jail. A mobile phone number publicly listed with Jones did not accept any incoming call on Friday.
“We are aware of an incident that involves a part -time employee arrested in our Location of Tallahassee on Wednesday,” said a spokesman for Chuck E. Cheese in a statement on Friday.
“We have taken the appropriate measures regarding the subject employee.”
