Pasco Sheriff Arrests Accused Gas Mask-Wearing Robber

HOLIDAY, FL -- Pasco County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 30-year-old Holiday man for the robbery of the Beacon Square Grocery store, 3332 Moog Road, Holiday.

John Robert Foche, 30, of the 3400 block of Wiltshire Drive, Holiday, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 22, and charged with robbery with a deadly weapon.

On Friday, Aug. 17 at 8:57 p.m., a man carrying a shotgun and wearing a gas mask and tactical vest walked into the grocery store and pointed the shotgun at a customer and the store clerk, threatening to shoot him. He ordered the customer to turn over his wallet and then ran behind the counter, shoved the clerk out of the way and removed the cash from the register.

Before leaving the store, he fired one round from the shotgun into the ceiling.

Surveillance video from the neighborhood showed a 2003 Ford Expedition leaving the scene that was registered to Foche. Sheriff's detectives served a search warrant on his home and located the gas mask, shotgun and tactical vest under a bed.

Foche is being held in lieu of a $155,000 bond.

Image and video via Pasco Sheriff

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