A Dundalk woman who worked at the Baltimore County Denny?s restaurant where a manager was stabbed during a robbery in August has been arrested on charges she arranged the robbery with her son, police said.
Deborah Burton, 53, of the 2900 block of Cornwall Road, was on staff at the Denny?s on Aug. 14 when her son, David Burton, attacked the manager, Michael Frederick, as Frederick was carrying a bag of cash receipts on his way to a bank, Baltimore County police said.
Local authorities in Gloucester County, Va., later spotted David Burton driving with his girlfriend in a white 1991 Nissan that authorities had linked to the robbery, police said. He and Sarah Lynn Higgins, 20, the girlfriend, were arrested on attempted murder, assault and armed-robbery charges. Police say Higgins owned the white Nissan seen leaving the restaurant in the 8000 block of Belair Road in Fullerton after the crime.
Frederick was flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with stab wounds to the back, stomach, arms and hands after the attack, a police spokesman said at the time. Witnesses told police that Frederick and his assailant struggled for about 90 seconds.
Deborah Burton has been indicted on attempted murder, assault and armed-robbery charges, police said.
