Sandy’s Cruz Through was robbed Friday evening around 7pm of approximately $623.00 in cash and merchandise.

Dayton police received a 911 call at 7:07pm from a store employee who felt he could call after he thought the suspects had left the area. Two officer’s were dispatched to 101 Springfield Street just after the emergency call came in to dispatch.

The employee, identified by Dayton police as 25 year old Terry Mathes, told police that he heard the buzz sound when someone enters the drive through and he proceeded to that area and opened the door. At that point, Mathes says that he was immediately pushed to the ground on his stomach and by what he believed to be a black males voice told him that if he moved or said anything that he would be shot. He said that the suspect had what felt like a knee on his back to hold him down and something cold and felt like a gun barrel against the back of his head.

At the same time, Mathes described to Dayton police that it sounded like a second male jumped over the counter and tried to open the cash register. As he could hear the register dings over and over informing Mathes that they could not open the register. At that point, the police report states that the suspects ordered the employee up and to unlock the register, which he did so. The suspects took all the cash except some coins. They then said to the employee “Where do you keep the Ports?” Mathes then realized the suspects were speaking about Newport cigarettes and show them where they were kept. The two suspects grabbed cigarettes and immediately fled out the front door.

Officer’s arrived shortly after the suspects fled and immediately interviewed the employee and viewed the surveillance video which showed the suspects as being black males possibly between the ages of twenty and thirty, approximately 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall. The first black male who entered from the drive through was wearing a red hoodie with a White Sox baseball cap with black letters and a light colored mask covering his lower face. He was holding a black semi auto hand gun in his right hand. The second black male suspect was wearing a white hoodie with a black scarf covering the lower part of his face. The video showed that neither suspect was wearing gloves and that both fled the store west bound from the drive through.

The Dayton Police report shows that a Montgomery County K9 unit arrived on the scene to track, but were unable to locate the suspects at that time.

The robbery is under investigation.