Overview
- Lake City Police identified the suspect as Kobe Latrey Watkins and took him into custody after responding to BJ’s Meat Market shortly before 9 p.m. ET.
- Employees and surveillance showed a person nude except for a face covering holding a cloth-wrapped object they believed was a weapon.
- Investigators formed a perimeter with the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and recovered clothing and other items believed connected to the route the suspect used to flee.
- Police say the robber forced open a cash box and took more than $1,000 before running away; no injuries were reported.
- After a hospital evaluation, Watkins was booked into the Columbia County Detention Center on counts of robbery with a weapon, exposure of sexual organs, grand theft, and criminal mischief, according to police.