Burglar Makes Pizza, Flees with $3,000

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) -- A pizza parlor burglar paused to make a pizza before fleeing with $3,000.

A security camera showed the intruder playing pizza chef after breaking into Sonny's Pizza and Pasta through a bathroom window early Monday, said Lt. Ted Boyne of the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

The burglar put on an employee's shirt after entering the pizza parlor about 2 a.m., then he made a pizza, spreading sauce, cheese and pepperoni over the dough and placing it in the oven, the lieutenant said.

Employees arriving about 3 a.m. apparently scared him off before the pizza was ready, Boyne said. The burglar fled with about $3,000. "We found the pizza burned in the oven," he added.

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