A former employee of the Bowman?s Restaurant and Pub in Parkville pleaded guilty Thursday to robbing the Baltimore County restaurant.
Nathaniel Green, 24, of Baltimore City, pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery in Baltimore County Circuit Court in Towson.
“He knew the restaurant,” Assistant State?s Attorney Allan Webster said. “He forced the general manager into the fridge. He took the money from the safe.”
Green will be sentenced Dec. 10.
His co-defendant, Shakime Duval Jackson, 33, is scheduled to stand trial Nov. 13.
According to police, the two men, one wearing a mask, entered the restaurant about 9:30 a.m. on Harford Road. One was armed with a shotgun and the other with a knife, police said.
An employee immediately ran out to the next-door headquarters of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 4, where police were called.
Inside the restaurant, three employees were forced into a walk-in refrigerator, police said.
The robbers then stole $4,750 from an office area, according to charging documents.
The suspects fled the building but were recorded on a surveillance tape.
One of the victims thought she recognized the voice of the masked man as that of Green, police said.
When he was interviewed by detectives, Green implicated Jackson, according to charging documents.
