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To Catch A Thief
Kosher bakery robbery thwarted
by a watchful neighbor.
SheIli Liebman Dorfman
Contributing Writer
Stopping A Suspect
Ready to leave for the day, the Sunrise
Cafe owner walked into the Bake Station
with an armful of papers he was taking
home with him. As George was running
to the door, an employee called out for
Parashos to help.
"I stiff-armed him with my free hand
and a plastic drink cup he was holding
fell to the floor, and we both ended up
outside," he said. "The stuff I was carry-
ing flew all over the place. We scuffled
again, and he tried to get away so I
grabbed his waist and put him in a sub-
mission hold. I've been doing martial
arts for 18 years so I was able to take
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A
Northville man chose the
wrong place when he robbed
a store with alert employees,
watchful neighbors, video surveillance,
heavy police patrol and a neighboring
business owner, trained in martial arts,
who entered the store at the right time.
Travis George, a 33-year-old resi-
dent of Northville was arrested and
charged with "larceny from person"
after a robbery at the Bake Station Too
kosher bakery on Orchard Lake Road in
Farmington Hills on April 25.
According to Commander Matthew
Koehn of the Farmington Hills Police
Department, George was arraigned on
April 26 in 47th District Court before
Judge James Brady. At press time, he had
not posted bond and remained in jail.
Koehn said, according to witnesses
at the store, "He went into the bakery
at 5:40 p.m. and asked an employee
for change for $50, which he did not
present. The cashier took out two twen-
ties and two fives, and he grabbed the
money and ran."
Before George was able to leave the
store, the owner of neighboring Sunrise
Cafe entered.
"I've noticed the guy a few times in
the past couple weeks walking past
the store and something didn't seem
right," said the restaurant's owner, Mike
Parashos.
"About half an hour before the rob-
bery, my dad — who was in the restau-
rant with me — and I saw him looking
into the bakery like he was scoping it
out, but there were customers there, and
he walked away. Later we saw him look
in when there were no customers, and
that's when he went inside
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Bake Station Too in Farmington Hills
him to the ground and hold him there.
The guy went to the hospital because he
fell face first onto the cement and was
bleeding profusely"
A bakery employee and a man who
witnessed the struggle outside the store
both called 911.
Police officers arrived very quickly,
according to Steve Katz, owner, with his
wife Amy, of Bake Station Too and also
the Bake Station in Southfield. "Their
response time, with police cars and an
ambulance, was maybe two minutes,"
he said.
Koehn said,"A patrol car was nearby.
Thirteen and Orchard Lake, where the
bakery is located, is heavily patrolled, and
its not unusual to have a car in the area.
"This appears to have been an isolat-
ed, random incident," Koehn said. "The
individual was dropped off by a friend
a little further north of the store and
said he was going to another friend's
house. We do not think anyone else was
involved in the robbery."
Katz said business at Bake Station Too
was not interrupted following the inci-
dent."We didn't skip a beat; customers
kept on coming into the store while the
police cars were out in front," he said.
To Katz, who like Parashos is a
member of the Wayne County Sheriff
Reserves, nothing in business is more
important that the safety of his employ-
ees and customers.
"We have six cameras throughout the
store," he said. "We already had an alarm
system before the robbery, but after it
took place, we added panic buttons.
"There were no threats made during
the robbery, and he had no weapon; it
was strictly for money. He wanted in and
out of the store fast.
"No one is immune to crime, and I
started instructing my employees many
years ago that in the event of a robbery
give them what they want; nothing is
worth getting hurt for, just get them out
the door." Cl
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