"Hot Chocolate Heist": Beverage Becomes Weapon in Convenience Store Robbery

BILLINGS, Mont. (CBS/KTVQ/AP) Yellowstone County police say a man walked into a convenience store about 8:30 p.m. Friday and filled up a cup of hot chocolate, in a seemingly innocent act.

But when the female clerk opened the cash register, surveillance video shows the man threw the hot chocolate in her face, took cash from the register and fled in a pickup truck.

Barreca was charged with felony robbery, and a judge set bail Monday at $125,000. Prosecutors say the "hot chocolate heist" netted $48, according to KTVQ.

The clerk suffered minor burns in the incident and did not require medical attention.