Two are accused in Popeye’s heist

Little Rock police are looking for two men who are accused of stealing $1,700 from the Popeye’s restaurant where they worked on Saturday morning, according to a police report.

Jacquez Reynolds and Malcolm Curry were identified by another person via security camera footage of the incident, which occurred at the 11501 W. Markham St. Popeye’s location just before 2 a.m.

Officers responded to a robbery call at the store at 1:56 a.m.

They made contact with a store employee, Antoino Mayo, who said he had been robbed at gunpoint.

Mayo claimed that at about 1:45 a.m., two men approached him in his vehicle as he was preparing to leave the restaurant and one of them tapped a window with what he thought was a gun.

Mayo said he stopped the car thinking it was someone asking for food, but it was two men wearing masks, one of whom pointed a gun at him and demanded that he return to the store. Mayo said he complied out of fear.

He said the men escorted him to a safe at the back of the restaurant. After filling a trash bag with money, the two fled in an unknown direction.

Officers found an open safe and spare change on the floor.

The restaurant’s manager, who wasn’t at the store at the time of the robbery, said there was about $1,700 in the safe at the time of the incident.

A review of security camera footage showed the two robbers running from a dark area before entering the store with Mayo.

Officers spoke to another person, named Mr. Phillips in the report, who recognized the subjects as being Reynolds and Curry, employees of the restaurant.