Alfy’s Pizza, a red ATV and a delivery gone bad

A couple is charged with first-degree robbery in alleged attack on pizza delivery man.

MONROE — This was no “put up your hands” robbery.

It was “put down the pizzas.”

The Alfy’s Pizza delivery man did as he was told by the woman with a smile and a gun. She rode away with the pies and cash on an ATV driven by a helmeted man.

Two suspects face charges of first-degree robbery for the February crime. Pizza remnants allegedly were found stashed in an oven.

The woman, 24, reportedly blamed it on a meth addiction. The man, 34, blamed it on her. They are scheduled for arraignment later this month.

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The Alfy’s worker told Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies he had made three deliveries when he went to the home on Old Owen Road, east of Monroe. He said it looked abandoned. He thought he had the wrong address. He was about to leave when a woman wearing motocross gear came out from around the house and told him to follow her so she could get money.

He saw a man sitting on a red three-wheeler wearing a helmet that obscured his face.

The woman, who held what appeared to be a black handgun, told him to place the pizza and money bag on the ground.

The delivery driver said at first it did not seem like a real threat because she was smiling and calm. When she repeated herself, he realized she was serious. The man didn’t speak.

The driver set down the goods, then left in his car. The couple followed him on the three-wheeler before turning off.

The victim told officers the suspects took the pizza and between $70 and $100 in cash, which was inside a black bag.

Deputies tracked the three-wheeler to a nearby home where there were marks in the grass and dirt that appeared to be from an ATV. A vehicle matching the description was found behind the barn, partially covered by a tarp.

Officers found what looked like a handgun, but upon further inspection was a .177-caliber pellet gun, patterned after a Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol.

The woman allegedly started crying and said, “I’m sorry. I don’t know what I was thinking, give me a minute and I’ll write a statement.”

She admitted placing an Alfy’s Pizza order under the name “Jessica,” according to prosecutors.

The goods were found in a mother-in-law-style apartment behind the main house. Inside the oven were boxes with what was left of two pizzas and two take-out containers with remnants of large cookies. Alfy’s offers a specialty item of a half-pound of cookie dough baked in a pizza pan. The pizza was still warm.

A black zippered money bag was under a bed and an insulated pizza bag was behind a drawer, court papers say.

The man told officers he didn’t know the woman had ordered a pizza and was surprised when she brandished the pellet gun.

He admitted driving her from the scene and to consuming some of the proceeds from the robbery, according to the Oct. 3 charges in Snohomish County Superior Court.

Andrea Brown: abrown@heraldnet.com; 425-339-3443. Twitter @reporterbrown.

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