Maine State Police say a man wearing a black mask and claiming to have a gun robbed a pizza shop in Pittsfield on Tuesday afternoon.
State police said the man entered Richie’s Pizza on South Maine Street around mid-afternoon and told the clerk he was armed with weapon. No shots were fired and no one was injured.
The man, who is described as being 5 feet, 10 inches to 6 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds, fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. Footage from a surveillance camera depicts the suspect as wearing an orange-colored hooded sweatshirt and a black face mask.
The eye slits in the mask were glowing with a green color, according to a news release posted on the department’s Facebook page.
“ET phone home,” one person said in a post. “Is that a welding helmet or sunglasses under a ski mask?” another person wrote.
Anyone with information about the robbery is being asked to call the Maine State Police in Augusta at 624-7076.
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