Michael Braun

MBRAUN@NEWS-PRESS.COM

Two Cape Coral men bent on stealing a pizza, soda and the delivery driver's wallet got a lot more than they bargained for.

Anthony Wayne Kilgore, 30, was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison with five years' probation on charges of robbery with a deadly weapon for his role in the 2015 robbery of a delivery driver from Heavenly Pizza in North Fort Myers. The sentencing was carried out in Lee County Circuit Court on Monday.

An accomplice, Adam Dvorak, 31, previously received a 15-year sentence for his involvement, also on robbery charges, and is currently in the Quincy Correctional Institution in Quincy.

Assistant State Attorney Tyler Lovejoy said the two men had called in a delivery order for a large cheese pizza, a 2-liter of soft drink and change for $100 on Feb. 10, 2015, to the Merchant's Crossing pizza shop and gave an address on Northeast 24th Avenue in Cape Coral.

The driver who made the delivery, a woman in her early 20s, was dispatched to the address and found it to be an abandoned and foreclosed home. After knocking on the door several times, the driver turned to leave only to be confronted by Dvorak and Kilgore, Lovejoy said.

"Dvorak held a knife to her throat," Lovejoy said, and took her wallet while Kilgore blocked her escape.

The assistant state attorney said that the delivery driver then did something the two men did not expect. She grabbed the knife by the blade, elbowed Dvorak in the torso and ran to her car. Kilgore, who had gone to the woman's car to get her keys, was pushed out of the way by the woman and she drove off.

Lovejoy said the woman's car spun out in the yard of the abandoned home and ended up behind Kilgore and Dvorak's car.

Because the money in her wallet was for her son's Little League registration, Lovejoy said she started following the criminal pair's car. She tried calling 911 but could not figure out where she was and blue painter's tape covered their license plate, blocking her from recording the number.

Lovejoy also said that at one point Kilgore got out of his car at Andalusia Boulevard and threatened the woman.

The woman finally flagged down a Cape Coral police officer and both vehicles were stopped. Lovejoy said that Dvorak told police that the woman was "crazy" and wouldn't stop following them.

When the men got out of their car, Kilgore tossed the knife into the grass and ripped the tape off the plate, Lovejoy said.

Checking their car and surroundings police found the bloody knife, blood on Kilgore's clothing where the woman pushed him, an empty wallet, cash strewn around the floorboards, a pizza box and a 2-liter bottle.

Lovejoy had nothing but praise for the victim. "She is really a remarkable person. She was a quick thinker," he said.

Heavenly Pizza declined to comment except to say the woman no longer works at the store.

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