Man in Scuba Suit Robs $20,000 From Disney World Restaurant

Authorities in central Florida are searching for a man who robbed a restaurant in Walt Disney World’s Disney Springs while dressed in scuba gear.

WFTV9 in Orlando reports the creative thief swam up to the Paddlefish restaurant after hours in the early morning of Monday (September 15), where he stole somewhere between $10,000 and $20,000, according to two pending charges for robbery and grand theft.

Formerly known as Fulton’s Crab House, and before that the Empress Lilly, Paddlefish is a restaurant located inside a stationary replica riverboat that sits in Village Lake at Disney Springs, formerly known as Downtown Disney. The 200-foot-long “boat” is actually a building with a submerged concrete foundation, and was first erected in 1976…

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