The robber who struck at a New Haven Domino’s Pizza on Tuesday night was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, so when police later stopped a stolen vehicle and found a woman inside with the same type of mask at her feet, they made an arrest.
“She tried to grab me and she went, 'You know where are you going, just come inside. I wanna get this done quick. Come inside the store and give me the money and nobody is gonna get hurt,'” store manager Ovie Mohamed said.
Police said the robber ran into the pizza shop at 357 Whalley Ave., and jumped over the counter, demanded money and ran off. Two men who were waiting outside.
Domino’s called police at 11:20 p.m. to report the robbery.
Two hours later, police pulled over a stolen vehicle at Chapel Street near Winthrop Avenue.
April Giamattei, 32, of New Haven was inside, police said. She matched the description of the robber and there was a mask at her feet.
The store manager said she got away with $150 and they’re planning to step up security.
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“We are trying to put a lock on the door, so every time a customer comes in from the main door we have to buzz them in," said AG Mahmud.
The mask, depicting the Englishman who tried to bomb British Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605, is famous because of the movie “V for Vendetta,” a movie based on the comic, where a violent, anarchist antihero fashions himself a modern Guy Fawkes and rebels against a fascist government.
Many protesters have adopted it as a symbol of the Occupy movement.
Giamattei was charged with robbery in the third degree and larceny in the fifth degree.
Police said the two men remain at large and have not been identified.
Anyone with further information about the robbery should call the Investigative Services Division at (203) 946-6304 and speak with a detective.
