Cashier jailed for nixing victim's 911 call
Said Azzawi, 36, an employee at the Citgo at 5060 E. 38th Street, was handcuffed by Marion County sheriff's deputies after denying the Papa John's courier the chance to use the free store phone.
...Azzawi, a native of Iraq who has had the roughly $7-an-hour job for just two weeks, said he wanted to help, but has been victimized by patrons who lie to him about why they want to use the free phone instead of the two pay-per-use public telephones in the parking lot.
...Police reports said sheriff's deputies then went to the Citgo, where Azzawi and two others were working.
...Azzawi was the only one arrested.
...Azzawi also was upset because he said he was wearing only a T-shirt when he was arrested and taken Downtown -- and this morning when he was freed he had no jacket to walk in 28-degree weather to try to hail a cab and get back home.
Azzawi, who came to the United States in 1991, said he is reconsidering staying in the U.S. after the experience. He has no prior criminal record in Marion County and said he hasn't been arrested before.
"I'm thinking about trying to leave the country. Even (with) the danger back home I want to go," he said.
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