NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – North Miami police arrested a man on two felony charges Wednesday in connection with a February armed robbery at a Checkers in the city.
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Police said Loubens Moricette, 37, robbed the restaurant at 13495 NW Seventh Ave. after placing a food order just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 13.
An arrest report states that as an employee was bringing him his meal, Moricette, wearing a mask, brandished a shotgun and got out of his SUV.
Police said he ordered the clerk to leave the window and he “climbed inside” through the drive-thru window to steal cash from the register.
During the robbery, the clerk “fled in fear for her life” while two other employees hid inside a rear office, the report states.
Authorities said they found Moricette Wednesday at a home in the 2200 block of Northwest 133rd Street in Miami-Dade’s unincorporated Westview area and took him into custody.
Authorities said the Bahamian national “confessed” to the crime.
Bahamian news outlets identify a person with the same name as having a criminal record in the country, including a conviction and a seven-year sentence for robbing a flower shop and a sentence for possessing a loaded assault rifle.
Moricette, listed as homeless, is being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on charges of armed robbery and armed burglary in the Checkers case, along with charges in other cases of concealed carry as an unauthorized alien, grand theft auto and cocaine possession.
His bond was listed as “to be set” in online jail records.