Man accused of attempted robbery at Dairy Queen

A man appeared in Clark County Superior Court on Monday on suspicion of attempting to rob two employees outside a Dairy Queen in Vancouver.

Andrew Lee Johnson, 24, of Vancouver is accused of threatening two employees with a folding knife outside the restaurant at 10507 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd., near the intersection of Northeast Coxley Road. He allegedly attempted to take one employee’s car keys.

Judge Scott Collier held Johnson in lieu of $50,000 bail and appointed Vancouver attorney Sean Downs to defend him. He is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 17 on charges of attempted first-degree robbery and second-degree assault.

Vancouver police responded to a 911 call from the restaurant just before 8 p.m. Sunday.

The robber approached employee Montie Miller, displayed a folding knife and threatened to harm Miller, according to a court affidavit by Vancouver police Officer Brian Schaffer.

“I’ll cut you,” the robber said repeatedly, according to Schaffer.

Miller went inside the restaurant and locked the doors. The robber, whom police identified as Johnson, then approached employee Randall Smead as Smead was walking in the parking lot to his car, Schaffer wrote. He displayed the open knife and demanded Smead’s car keys, Schaffer wrote. Smead returned to the restaurant, where someone called 911.

Johnson was arrested at the scene. Schaffer reported that he appeared to be intoxicated.

His “speech was slurred, and he was unsteady on his feet,” Schaffer wrote. The officer said he found a folding knife clipped to Johnson’s right front pocket.

Johnson told investigators that he didn’t recall any of the events that the victims described.