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Police reports
By Times staff writer Suspect at large after holdup at restaurantDADE CITY -- A masked gunman held up a restaurant north of town early Friday but got away with only a small amount of cash, authorities reported. Jon Powers, spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, said a cook at Jeff's Food Shack, along U.S. 301 just north of the city limits, had just taken a delivery and was putting things away about 5:30 a.m. when she turned to find a man inside. The robber -- wearing a white, rubber ghost mask and pointing a pistol -- apparently had come in through an unlocked door, Powers said. The man searched the restaurant, but there was little money. He ordered the cook to put her hands behind her back and taped them together before he fled. The restaurant was closed Friday, with a sign on the front marked "Closed due to emergency." The sign said the restaurant would reopen today. Deputies did not immediately release the cook's name because the suspect remained at large and reports were not complete. The robber is described as a black man in his 20s, about 6 feet tall and slender. He was wearing a yellow, long-sleeve, hooded sweat shirt with the Nautica logo on the back; long, black, dungaree shorts; and white ankle socks and shoes. Four youths steal watch from woman on streetDADE CITY -- A 29-year-old woman told Pasco County sheriff's deputies that four boys robbed her at knifepoint early Wednesday. She told investigators that she wasn't worried she would be hurt but was concerned that the young people were out at such a late hour. According to reports, the woman was walking on Marion Avenue near Lock Street about 3 a.m. Wednesday when four youths approached her. One grabbed a stopwatch from her hand. When she asked for the item to be returned, she said, one told her that he would kill her. The woman said they then ran away. According to the reports, the woman was not afraid for her life, but "she did not believe the juveniles should be running up and down the street."
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