Police Seeking Suspect in Arbee's Liquor Robbery

Arbee’s Liquor, 4606 Douglas Ave., was robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash at about 6 p.m. Thursday night.

Caledonia Police are still searching for a suspect.

Ashok Patel, owner of the store, said his sister was working at the time a man came in and said he was planning a large party. What surprised Patel was that the man spoke Hindi.

“He said he was having a big party and he was shopping for a lot of things. He said, ‘Can you help me?’ So my sister got a trolley for him. He asked for more cases of beer and he wanted to send her near the cooler.”

The woman was near the cooler when the man went behind the register, opened it, took the cash and left the store.

“He didn’t have a weapon and he didn’t hurt us,” Patel said. “He just went behind the register and left.

“I’m really surprised. This store has been running for 40 years and they’ve never had anything happen like this.”

According to preliminary reports, the Caledonia Police Department is searching for a man described as either Asian or Indian, having brown shoulder length hair, about 5-foot 11-inches tall, in his 30s and weighing about 200 pounds.

The man was last seen wearing a puffy winter coat, a white long-sleeved T-shirt, blue jeans with colored rear pockets and white tennis shoes. The man left in either a Ford Explorer or Mountaineer with no license plates. The vehicle is described as either a late 1990s or early 2000 model.

If anyone has any information, please call the Caledonia Police Department at (262) 835-4423.

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