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Ashkelon shift manager chases gunman who took restaurant's cash register

Security footage and an emergency call document the robbery, while police say the suspect later argued that the recordings were AI-generated.

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0:13Inspector Asaf Cohen says the suspect watched the restaurant beforehand and used a vehicle with false license plates.
0:46Security footage shows a masked man entering the restaurant and drawing a handgun.
1:08Shift manager Zohar Biton recounts her fear, the struggle and her pursuit after the register was taken.
1:53Biton's emergency call reports a gunman fleeing with the restaurant's cash register.
2:13Cohen says police identified and located the suspect in less than 12 hours.
2:40The reporter says the suspect called the footage AI-generated and was subsequently indicted.

Zohar Biton tried to pursue an armed robber after he tore away the cash register at the Patio restaurant in Ashkelon, a city on Israel's Mediterranean coast. The gunman escaped with about 10,000 shekels, according to a report by Kan News, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation's news division in Israel.

Itzik Zuaretz's report combines security-camera footage with Biton's account and her emergency call to police. The footage shows a man entering the restaurant wearing a cap, sunglasses and a mask before drawing a handgun in front of her.

Biton, the shift manager, describes being frightened and not fully understanding what was happening. She recounts trying to struggle with the robber and following him after he took the register. In the recorded call, she tells the police dispatcher that a man with a gun has entered, taken the register and fled.

Police Inspector Asaf Cohen, the Ashkelon station's intelligence officer, says the suspect arrived around one in the morning, watched the restaurant beforehand and prepared a vehicle with false license plates. Cohen says officers identified and located him in less than 12 hours.

The report says the suspect denied involvement and argued that the security videos had been created using artificial intelligence. Zuaretz reports that an indictment was filed and that drugs were also found in the suspect's possession. The broadcast does not present a court finding on those allegations.

The report closes by citing a decline in robbery offenses in the surrounding Lachish police area.

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