Pizzeria

Two masked men stormed Boccie of Ardmore in Suburban Square Friday night, struck a waitress in the head with a gun, and robbed the pizzeria of $2,500, the second armed robbery in two weeks at the upscale shopping center. Police arrested five Philadelphia men, including two employees of the pizzeria, following a chase down Montgomery Avenue that involved three police cars. According to police, the incident began about 11:20 p.m., while employees were closing the restaurant.

A Norwood man convicted of having fired a shot into a Glenolden pizzeria as part of an apparent feud with the shop's owners was sentenced in Delaware County Court on Friday to 10 months to two years in prison. Because he spent 10 months in Delaware County Prison awaiting trial, Edward Condon normally would be eligible for immediate parole. But Assistant District Attorney John F.X. Reilly said Condon faced more prison time because the shooting violated his parole for a Philadelphia aggravated-assault conviction.

A 22-year-old Washington Township man has been charged with disorderly conduct on accusations that he videotaped children as they played in a popular pizzeria and arcade. Jason Michael Kammerer was arrested Wednesday at the Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in the Court at Deptford strip mall after an off-duty police chief saw a man following little girls in the play room and videotaping them as they climbed the equipment, police said. "I saw him walking up very, very close to kids and videotaping," Collingswood Police Chief Thomas Garrity Jr. said.

More than $20,000 in cash and a 9mm assault pistol were confiscated from a pizzeria last Friday by a team of code inspectors that pulled up to the shop with Mayor Milton Milan in the "Mayor Mobile," officials said. According to mayoral spokesman Keith Walker, the mayor's Suburban wagon, with Milan and members of his code-inspection team, drove to the shop at 1524 Mount Ephraim Ave. about 10:30 p.m. When some team members entered the premises, owner Mohamed Yasir Loul stepped into the back of the building, leaving steaks sizzling on the grill and a pizza baking in the oven, Walker said.

Daniel Colon said he shot the cop in self-defense. The 28-year-old North Philadelphia man, who police say robbed a neighborhood pizzeria Tuesday night and then fatally wounded the Housing Authority officer who chased him, has told investigators that the officer shot at him first, authorities said yesterday. Colon was arrested late Wednesday night at his father's house on North Front Street, following negotiations with police over his surrender. He was taken into custody without incident and charged with murder, robbery and related offenses.

If you didn't know better, you might think that "Mack & Manco" is how they say "pizza" in Ocean City. After all, for more than 50 years along the town's famed boardwalk, the name has been synonymous with what is arguably America's favorite fast food. You need look no further than the three - count 'em, three - Mack & Mancos on a mere four-block stretch in the heart of the wooden esplanade - a feat of market saturation that would make even Starbucks executives gnash their teeth in envy.

The stretch of South Street from Broad Street west into Grays Ferry has been growing as a food destination, what with such recent arrivals as the Cambridge , Magpie Artisan Pie Boutique , Sawatdee , and the Quick Fixx , and with the second location of Honey's Sit 'n Eat opening shortly at 21st and South Streets. Saturday will see the debut of Miles Table at 1620 South St. (267-318-7337), a cozy, neighborhood-friendly spot from Michael Lynch, whose business Catering by Miles counts for much of the reason people want to join Lombard Swim Club, where he's the exclusive caterer.

An associate of a reputed Sicilian Mafia drug ring yesterday was sentenced to an 11-year, no-parole prison term for trafficking in cocaine at a Center City pizzeria. Filippo Filiberto, 36, of Cherry Hill, N.J., was sentenced under tough new federal sentencing guidelines by U.S. District Judge Louis C. Bechtle. He is one of six reputed Sicilian Mafia associates convicted of drug trafficking in April. All six defendants are natives of Sicily, and while they allegedly sold cocaine supplied by the Sicilian Mafia, none of them is believed to be a member of the criminal group, said Michael Seigel, a prosecutor with the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force.

Ignazio Antonino Mannino, owner of a Montgomery County pizzeria, was sentenced yesterday to 27 years in prison with no chance of parole for heroin trafficking. Mannino, 32, owns and operates Tony's pizzeria in Eagleville. But federal authorities say he also imported large quantities of heroin from his native Sicily and sold it in the Philadelphia area and elsewhere on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia, a criminal group in which he held a rank comparable to lieutenant. According to one witness, during winter months the group hired big-breasted American women to smuggle the heroin under their clothing onto commercial airlines, and in the summer a nun acted as the courier and donated the $5,000 she got for each trip to an orphanage.

The Famous King of Pizza, a South Jersey icon that has reigned along Route 70 for nearly 40 years, was destroyed yesterday afternoon by a fast-moving fire sparked in the building's roof. The landmark pizzeria was closed yesterday while construction crews worked on an exterior remodeling project. Fire officials said the blaze may have been started accidentally during the construction. Mario Scaturro, one of the owners, was inside the pizzeria picking out tile colors for the remodeling when the fire started.