Everett restaurant employee robbed, forced into dumpster

Published 9:00 pm Sunday, November 30, 2003

EVERETT — A man accosted a restaurant employee on her way to make a night deposit and robbed her of an undisclosed amount of money.

The robber stuck something in her back, implied he had a gun, and told her to give him the money, Snohomish County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said. The robber also took money from the woman’s purse and told her to climb into a garbage bin and stay there for 10 minutes, she said. The woman, 40, complied. She was uninjured.

The incident occurred about 8:44 p.m. Sunday at Skipper’s Seafood ‘n Chowder House in the 12800 block of Fourth Avenue W. as the woman was walking to her car. The man approached her from behind.

She described the man as white, about 6 feet tall, slender build, a deep voice, and said he was dirty. Deputies searched the area with a police dog but were unable to find him, Jorgensen said.

He wore a dark beanie-type stocking cap and his hair protruded from beneath the cap.