Phoenix liquor store employee allegedly attacked with pepper spray by thief

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Trevor’s Liquor is asking for the community’s help in finding a suspect after an alleged thief pepper-sprayed an employee.

On Nov. 25, around 3:00 p.m., a Trevor’s Liquor employee was attacked with pepper spray at the store’s Indian School Road location in Phoenix. The suspect left the scene with three bottles of liquor valued at more than $600.

According to store management, the suspect entered the store in the middle of the afternoon and engaged a manager in conversation about tequila.

While staff were assisting customers, surveillance footage shows the man returning to the liquor aisle, taking three bottles, and walking out of the store.

A Trevor’s employee pursued the suspect into the parking lot in an effort to stop the theft. The suspect turned and spray