An alleged job applicant-turned-robber is in police custody and charged with committing a felony.

The Buchanan County prosecutor's office charged Jason Edward Deming, 28, with second-degree robbery. Mr. Deming allegedly entered a Pizza Hut on King Hill Avenue on Nov. 1, asked for a job application and sat down at a table. After watching two employees leave the store, he allegedly went up to the cash register and verbally threatened a clerk, who gave him an unknown amount of cash. The suspect fled on foot.

The St. Joseph Police Department located the suspect after receiving a tip from a citizen, said Capt. Kevin Castle, a spokesman for the department. Surveillance footage shows the suspect running along the back of the store following the alleged robbery.

In 2008, Mr. Deming entered a guilty plea to another second-degree robbery charge. Circuit Judge Patrick Robb sentenced him to eight years in prison, but allowed him to be placed on probation after he'd served 120 days in jail. The probation was to be for four years.

Associate Circuit Judge Ronald Taylor will conduct a preliminary hearing at 10 a.m. Dec. 1 on the new charge. No date for a new hearing before Mr. Robb had been set by Friday.

Mr. Deming is being held in the Buchanan County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bond in connection with the new charge and a $50,000 bond for the probation violation.