RALEIGH -- A man with a distinctive lisp was fingered by a former co-worker when he tried to rob the fast food restaurant where he once worked, according to a warrant made public this week.

Two men armed with knives robbed a Burger King restaurant at 4203 Wake Forest Road on Feb. 23, the warrant said.

An employee at the fast food restaurant told police that she thought she knew one of the suspects, a former employee with a speech impediment who worked at a nearby gas station.
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One of the detectives investigating the robbery also was familiar with the suspect, according to the court documents.

The suspect had been both a witness and victim in robberies reported at the Crown gas station on Wake Forest Road.

Police arrested Willie Catts, 32, and charged him with second-degree kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery, according to court documents.

Police searched Catts' apartment at 3311-103 Quail Hollow Drive and seized clothing, knives, box cutters and documents.

A second suspect also has been arrested, a police spokesman said. Clifton Emmanuel Rollins, 39, faces the same charges as Catts, as well as charges of larceny and breaking and entering, stemming from an unrelated incident, the police said.