The Cops Were Raising Cane's!

Kentucky cops foil a fast food robber. 

The Louisville Metro Police had to credit two neighboring cops for stopping a perp from robbing a local Raising Cane's in the city.

Chase and Nicole McKeown became overnight celebrities this week. They went on a date and entered a local Raising Cane's restaurant. They walked in on a robbery in progress.

The married couple foiled the robbery when they saw the suspect let his guard down.

The camera footage shows Detective Chase McKeown and his wife Officer Nicole McKeown draw their weapons and confront the masked gunman while he was pressuring the cashier to hand over the money.

The couple who work for Elizabethtown, Kentucky's police department. The city is only 50 miles south of the Louisville metro.

Dumb crook didn't expect two cops were dining in the restaurant.

The suspect was wearing a surgical face mask.

Nicole said at first she thought the perp was wearing a mask because it was flu season.

She said: "I think we kind of both saw him at the same time. I looked at him and said, 'That's kind of odd.'"

When they realized it was a robbery, Chase handed his cell phone to his wife and told her to call 911 while he confronted the robber.

But Nicole pulled out her gun as well saying she though: "No - I'm gonna help my husband!"

"That's where that repetitiveness and that training kicks in," said Nicole McKeown.

The couple managed to capture the suspect who was a 30-year old. He was charged with first-degree robbery and possessing a handgun as a convicted felon. The charges could put this perp in the iron college for at least 15 years plus 10 for being a convict.

The pair were hailed as heroes. They said that "it's all in the line of duty."

"Maybe it's the term hero," Chase McKeown said. "We don't feel that way. We just feeling like our training kicked in."

He added, "In marriage we've got each other. We're going to talk things out, we're going to deal with whatever matter comes at us."

Asked about going back to the Raising Cane's restaurant.

They replied, "Oh, absolutely. [We] love Raising Cane's."

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.