Raj Patel and Danny Curtis staged this robbery at a Shell gas station in Duluth, Georgia, say police. (Images: Duluth Police Department)
A pair of Georgia gas station store employees are accused of staging an armed robbery in which one of them acted like an anonymous robber and pretended to punch the other in the face. Police say that Danny Curtis, 59, is seen on in-store surveillance footage wearing a hood and grabbing cash as Raj Patel laid face down, sprawled out on the floor.
Footage viewed by Law&Crime from a Shell gas station in Duluth shows two separate incidents happening minutes apart. In the first incident at approximately 11:45 p.m. on Jan. 20, Patel is behind the register when a man in a hoodie accosts him and appears to jab a fist at him. It is unclear if the robbery suspect’s fist even connected with Patel’s face, but Patel immediately dropped to the floor. The robbery suspect left. Then a woman, identified in documents as a co-worker, found Patel, who remained on the floor for a bit before getting up.