Police say an employee at a Fort Smith fast food restaurant was found tied up after a robbery Saturday morning.
Another employee arrived at work at Hardee's, 1820 Phoenix Ave., to find that the opening manager was bound and sitting on the floor near an open safe, according to a Fort Smith Police Department news release. The worker then went to the nearby Pic-N-Tote convenience store and called police, authorities said. When officers arrived, they found the manager as well as another store employee inside. "Officers were told that when the manager arrived to unlock the store, two males were already inside and robbed the females at gunpoint," the release states. The robbers took money from the safe and "ransacked" the restaurant's office before fleeing the scene in one worker's Kia that was parked by the front door with its engine running, police said. Fort Smith police have identified a person of interest in the case, though he had not been arrested as of Saturday afternoon.
NW News on 07/29/2018