A confrontation over an unpaid restaurant tab at Fuego Azteca in Fraser ended in felony charges Sunday night, after two employees allegedly tracked down suspects to a Winter Park gas station and brandished a handgun from one of their waistbands.

Officers from the Fraser Winter Park Police Department, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office and the Granby Police Department responded to the Stop & Save convenience store around 8:48 p.m. on Feb. 1 following reports of a disturbance involving a firearm.

According to a press release by the police department, the incident began earlier that evening when a male and a female reportedly left the establishment without paying more than a $100 bill for food and drinks. Two restaurant employees followed the pair, who had boarded a bus near Murdoch’s Ranch and Home Supply, the release said.

When the suspects exited the bus at the Stop & Save, the employees confronted them, the release said. Police say one employee pulled a handgun from his waistband and pointed it at the two suspects, and that, meanwhile, the second employee allegedly placed the male suspect in a chokehold.

Officers recovered the handgun at the scene without further incident.

The two employees, Ezequiel Villa Penaloza, 50, and Juan Narvaez Castro, 23, both residents of Fraser, were transported to the Grand County Jail. Penaloza was charged with felony menacing and second-degree assault with strangulation, also a felony. Castro was charged with second-degree assault with strangulation.

The two individuals accused of leaving the restaurant with paying were issued summonses for misdemeanor petty theft and violation of a protection order. They were not named in the press release.