KINGWOOD — A Maryland man is charged with the attempted armed robbery of the Kingwood Hardee’s restaurant.
Bradley Scott Savage, 43, of Mountain Lake Park, Md., was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail Monday in lieu of $500,000 bond.
According to a criminal complaint by Kingwood Officer G.M. McNemar, about 9:30 p.m. Friday a man entered the restaurant dressed in a black and white plaid hooded jacket, camouflage face mask, purple medical gloves, coyote tan Carhartt bib overalls and brown work boots.
The man went behind the counter, pulled out a black handgun and pointed it at the three men working there.
The man, identified as Savage in the complain, walked further into the kitchen and demanded access to the safe, “unless he ‘wanted these guys to die.’” A worker in the office called 911. Savage kicked the office door then fled on foot towards W.Va. 7 without taking any money.
About 5 minutes after the armed robbery call, Preston 911 received a call of an armed car jacking and crash on W.Va. 7 about a half mile outside city limits.
The first caller said the vehicle which wrecked had passed them on W.Va. 7 and they believed the driver was under the influence. A second caller said the driver was wearing Carhartt bibs “and didn’t appear to be acting right.”
This caller said the driver of the wrecked car, later identified as Savage, said a man had taken his keys at gunpoint. Neither of the callers had seen anyone else around.
“When arriving on scene I immediately saw the black and white plaid hooded jacket laying on the guardrail,” and “a piece of a purple glove laying in the leaves underneath the guardrail,” Officer McNemar wrote.
When a deputy asked Savage, who was inside an ambulance, what was in his pockets, he pulled a camo face mask out. Savage was also wearing brown work boots.
After obtaining a search warrant for Savage’s vehicle, the Carhartt bibs were found in the back seat under a blanket. No weapon was found.
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