SPARTANBURG October 8, 2008 A manager and an employee at a Spartanburg drive-in restaurant foiled an armed robber who gave them 5 seconds to open the store safe.

The manager told he didn’t know the combination to the safe where the restaurant’s cash had been put after closing Tuesday night.

He said the robber started counting down the seconds he was giving him to open the safe. The manager lunged at the robber when he looked away.

Security camera shows him slamming the robber into the counter and a second employee helping get the man on the ground. They held the man there until police arrived.

Twenty-one-year-old Alvin Dean Edwards of Spartanburg is charged with armed robbery. Jail records do not indicate whether Edwards has an attorney.