Dine-and-dashers threatened with gun, choked by employees of Colorado restaurant

DENVER (KDVR) — Two employees of a restaurant were arrested, and two people who allegedly skipped out on a $100 bill at a Fraser restaurant were cited after the four were involved in an incident on Sunday, according to the Fraser Winter Park Police Department.

Police did not name the restaurant but said a man and woman left a restaurant in the mountain town without paying for more than $100 worth of food and drinks and were followed by two employees of the restaurant across town and into Winter Park, where the incident happened.

The two alleged dine-and-dashers got on a bus at Murdoch’s Ranch & Home Supply in Fraser and exited at the Stop N Save in Winter Park, where the two restaurant employees confronted them, police said.

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During the confrontation, one employee, identified as Ezequiel Villa Penaloza, 50, allegedly pulled out a handgun from his waist and pointed it at the man and woman. The second employee, Juan Narvaez Castro, 23, put the man in a chokehold…

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