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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) A robbery that was armed was reported at a Pizza Hut store in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Monday night and a male suspect has been taken into custody for it. According to police, the suspect, forty-four-year-old Jason Fields held a cashier of the Pizza Hut on Baum Boulevard at gunpoint, demanding money. The criminal complaint states that the cashier told police they believed anywhere from $400 to $600 was around how much money Fields had taken from the safe and the cash register. Police also confirm that the area of Lincoln Road and Verona Road is where Fields crashed with his vehicle after police officers from Pittsburgh chased him in his vehicle into the Penn Hills area and an ongoing investigation is being held into the armed robbery. Fields is now in custody and has charges against him which include robbery, receiving stolen property, reckless driving along with other offenses.