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A robber used Google Translate to announce a robbery at an Ecuadorian restaurant in New Jersey, in the United States. There was no need, Deacon Remédios would say: the victim also spoke English.
Police in Newark, New Jersey, are looking for a man who allegedly tried to rob an Ecuadorian restaurant using Google Translate to convey his demands.
On February 20th, just before 8am, a man bought a cup of coffee at the restaurant My Ecuadorian Corner. Soon after, using Google Translate, he announced that he was robbing the establishment, says .
According to the police report, the man threatened to shoot the employee from the cashier if she didn’t open the cash register.
According to , the robber will have used the application to translate your words from English to Spanishalthough this would apparently be unnecessary, since the cashier also spoke English. The restaurant is located in a neighborhood with a significant Latino population.
The employee agreed and opened the cash drawer.. The burglar tried to reach the drawer, but I couldn’t understand how to remove it of the register. Frustrated, threw the coffee at him before running away from the restaurant, according to police.
“A man went in to buy a coffee, bought a coffee and then wanted to keep the money. And when the cashier told him to take it, he didn’t take it, He got angry, threw the coffee at him and then threw a jug at him. that was on the table,” restaurant owner Maria told News 12.
The owner says that both she and her employees remain under tension after the attempted robbery. “We were scaredbecause there are times when we cannot be here. We think this could happen again”, he told the television station.
Police continue to search for the suspectdescribed as a black man dressed entirely in black, with a black cap and black face mask.
The robbery at the Ecuadorian restaurant it wasn’t the first time that someone tried to use Google Translate while committing a crime. In September last year, Tyshon Smith and Dylan Roszakboth 18, of robbery, were accused by Chicago prosecutors of a robbery on one of the city’s trains.
According to, during the robbery, the two young men used Translate to assault a man who spoke Spanishwho they demanded to hand over all the money he had. The victim complied, handing them $150 in cash and his Mexican identification card.
