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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101703516.html
Pot of coffee, stops robber cold police say.
By Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 18, 2008; Page B03
A knife-wielding man who held up a Northern Virginia convenience store Thursday dropped most of his loot after a quick-thinking Secret Service agent flung a pot of hot coffee in his face, authorities said.
The agent's neck was cut slightly as the robber swung his arm in a scuffle in a Wawa store near Interstate 95 in the Garrisonville area of Stafford County, about 35 miles south of Washington, according to the county sheriff's office.
The off-duty agent was getting coffee at the Wawa when the robber forced a store manager to empty the registers, the sheriff's office said.
The agent, who saw what was happening but was unarmed, made use of what was available.
He "grabbed a full pot of hot coffee" and threw it, the sheriff's office said. After a struggle in which most of the cash fell from his bag, the robber fled, the sheriff's office said.
Scott M. Bleutge, 44, of Stafford County was later arrested on I-95 and charged with robbery, malicious wounding and driving under the influence, the sheriff's office said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101703516.html
Pot of coffee, stops robber cold police say.
By Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 18, 2008; Page B03
A knife-wielding man who held up a Northern Virginia convenience store Thursday dropped most of his loot after a quick-thinking Secret Service agent flung a pot of hot coffee in his face, authorities said.
The agent's neck was cut slightly as the robber swung his arm in a scuffle in a Wawa store near Interstate 95 in the Garrisonville area of Stafford County, about 35 miles south of Washington, according to the county sheriff's office.
The off-duty agent was getting coffee at the Wawa when the robber forced a store manager to empty the registers, the sheriff's office said.
The agent, who saw what was happening but was unarmed, made use of what was available.
He "grabbed a full pot of hot coffee" and threw it, the sheriff's office said. After a struggle in which most of the cash fell from his bag, the robber fled, the sheriff's office said.
Scott M. Bleutge, 44, of Stafford County was later arrested on I-95 and charged with robbery, malicious wounding and driving under the influence, the sheriff's office said.
