PANAMA CITY BEACH -- Police arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of robbing a gift shop and repeatedly using a stun gun on a clerk who tried to call 911, according to the Panama City Beach Police Department.
Nikolas Subbotin Nicolaevitsch, of Panama City Beach, is charged with two counts of armed robbery and tampering with a victim after he was arrested Wednesday.
Police said Nicolaevitsch went to the Party Shack on the 10000 block of Front Beach Road around 11 a.m. Wednesday with a gun and a ski mask and demanded money and merchandise from the clerk. He left the store with merchandise and an undisclosed amount of cash, but the clerk chased him while trying to call police.
Nicolaevitsch used an “electronic stun device” on the woman, who fell to the ground. He kicked her and took the phone from her, and then he fled in a vehicle.
The clerk and other witness gave police a description of the suspect and the vehicle, and police arrested Nicolaevitsch as he arrived at the Shores of Panama.
Nicolaevitsch was booked into the Bay County Jail to await his first court appearance.
