Brentwood International

John Steven Szwalla, 17, was charged f he had thought about it, Bobby Ray Mabe probably wouldn't have attacked the man trying to rob his store early Thursday. But when a man holding something under his shirt asked for a Mountain Dew, then demanded money, a patron and Mabe grabbed him. "If he had had a gun he would've shot me," Mabe said. "But he had a banana." with common-law robbery after he tried to rob a store using a banana tucked under his shirt to look like a gun, according to the sheriff's office.  Mabe and the patron held the robber while they waited for the deputies to arrive. Meanwhile, the would-be robber ate the banana.  "And the deputy said, 'Ah hah! He ate the evidence,'" Mabe said. "But we had the banana peel and they took a picture of it."

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