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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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Oh no, not again! Another robbery attempt thwarted at Max's Package Liquor, Koering not at scene Associate Editor For the second time in about a month a would-be robber was thwarted while trying to steal cash at Max's Package Liquor in Brainerd.
Sen. Paul Koering, the store owner, learned of the second attempted robbery Monday afternoon when a panic alarm triggered a call to him at his office in St. Paul.
Like the earlier intruder, this would-be robber was chased away.
David Hoefs, the former owner of Max's Package Liquor, grabbed the same wooden club that Koering used last month to scare off a different robber then enlisted a nearby roofer to help him track the fleeing burglar by car.
The two men were unable to apprehend the robber but provided information to law officers that resulted in a careful search of the blocks east of the South Ninth Street liquor store to South Sixth Street, between Front and Laurel streets.
Brainerd Police were searching for a heavy-set white male, about 35, who was wearing a blue ski mask pulled down over thick eyeglasses. Sgt. Terry Crocker of the Brainerd Police Department said Monday night no arrests had been made in the incident but the investigation was continuing.
Police Chief John Bolduc said Monday the incident could have been a copycat of the attempted robbery last month when two black males, about 6 feet tall, wearing hooded sweatshirts and scarves entered the store and tapped on the cash register with an aluminum bat and said "This is what we'll have."
Koering brandished a wooden club at them and chased them away from the store but they escaped on foot. No arrests have been made in the first incident.
Maxine Hoefs, a former owner who helps out Koering at the store, said she and her husband were in the store when Monday's robber came in with what appeared to be a silver pipe and pointed at the cash register saying, "I want what's in here."
Just as the robber was reaching into the register, she said her husband, David, grabbed a wooden club and yelled, "Get the hell out of here."
When the intruder left the store, David Hoefs hit him on his shoulder with the club and followed him out the door.
The attempted burglary took place at around 3:30 p.m.
"I haven't had a cigarette since 1976 but I could sure use one now," Maxine Hoefs said.
Koering, a Fort Ripley Republican, said the second attempted robbery at his store was "unbelievable" and expressed concern for his employees.
MIKE O'ROURKE can be reached at mike.orourke@brainerddispatch.com or 855-5860.
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