IDAHO FALLS — Surveillance video obtained by EastIdahoNews.com shows three people, wearing hoodies and bandanas, calmly walked into a Subway restaurant Tuesday night and held a gun to an employee’s face as they demanded money.
The robbery happened around 10:45 p.m. at 955 E. 17th St. after the sandwich shop had closed.
EastIdahoNews.com obtained the video hours after the crime occurred. However, because we did not want to interfere with the investigation, we waited until police had reviewed the video.
The footage shows the suspects entered the restaurant and split up. One tried to open the cash register drawer, another remained at the front door and the third suspect held a gun to the employee.
The worker was forced to the back of the restaurant at gunpoint, and video shows him with his hands up, being pushed into an office containing a safe. The employee then opens the safe as a suspect stands with a gun to his head.
After the safe was emptied, video shows the three suspects escorting the employee into a walk-in freezer before the thieves leave through the back door of the store.
“This is the most violent robbery I’ve ever seen. You don’t expect that stuff to happen here,” Mike Manwill, the Subway owner, tells EastIdahoNews.com.
Manwill says the robbery appears to have been planned out.
Idaho Falls Police are searching for the three male suspects. They did not give descriptions other than what the robbers were wearing:
First robber: Wearing a dark hoodie (possibly maroon or dark brown) with dark pants and dark boots.
Second robber: Wearing a black hoodie with white shoulder markings and a red hood, and white gloves with black stripes.
Third robber: Wearing a black racing hoodie and royal blue gloves.
Police say one of the robbers may have run from them in the area near 12th Street and St. Clair Road around 1 a.m. That’s when they sent out a CodeRed alert to people in the area telling them to lock their doors.
The alert was canceled around 3 a.m. because police believed the person was no longer in the area.
Manwill said his employee was not physically hurt, but he was emotionally shaken.
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