HANSVILLE — The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people in relation to a robbery in Hansville Oct. 8.

Sheriffs say Andrew Sauer, 28, and Adrianne Buckner, 26, both of Kingston, entered Hansville Grocery and Provision Co. around 5:45 p.m. and attempted to steal money from the store register.

The register is located near the entrance and was unattended at the time. Sauer reached over the counter and began pressing register buttons in an attempt to open it, according to Deputy Sheriff Scott Wilson.

Corena Chamberlain, 47, who works at the store as a clerk and waitress for Hansgrill, a small restaurant attached to the store, heard the door open and then approached the front the store. She walked behind the counter and asked Sauer what he was doing.

Sauer walked behind the counter and demanded Chamberlain open the register. She refused, Wilson said.

Standing less than three feet away, Sauer sprayed Chamberlain in the face with a powerful pepper spray used by police and military known as oleoresin capsicum.

Chamberlain screamed, alerting Josh McLeod, 21, a Hansgrill chef, and Frederick Dacier, 50, a customer from Hansville, who both ran up from the back of the store to help.

Sauer and Buckner left the store without any money and were confronted by McLeod and Dacier. Sauer pepper-sprayed them both, Wilson said.

Sauer and Buckner fled the scene in a black Volkswagen Jetta driven by a 31-year-old Kingston man named Christopher Schrader.

They left going southbound on Hansville Road. Sheriffs were given descriptions of the make and model of the vehicle, as well as its license plate number, Wilson said.

The suspects turned onto Little Boston Road and then drove through the Port Gamble Reservation before reentering Hansville Road. A tribal police officer, who’d been notified of the robbery, spotted them leaving the reservation and alerted sheriff’s deputies, Wilson said.

The tribal police officer followed the suspects as they continued into Kingston. Schrader stopped the vehicle in a McDonald’s parking lot where Sauer and Buckner exited the vehicle and entered the restaurant. Schrader left and continued into Kingston, Wilson said.

Sheriff’s deputies pursued into Kingston, but had to be mindful of the high school’s Homecoming parade, Wilson said.

Sheriffs eventually found Schrader in his vehicle on Ohio Avenue. Wilson said Sauer was fully compliant and admitted to driving Sauer and Buckner from Hansville, although he said he didn’t know they intended to rob the store.

The vehicle was impounded.

Chamberlain, McLeod and Dacier were brought to the sheriff’s office and identified Sauer from a photographic lineup.

Sauer and Buckner are in a relationship and were arrested at Buckner’s parent’s home on Parcels Road at 2:15 a.m. Oct. 9, Wilson said.

Sauer, Buckner and Schrader were charged with robbery in the first degree and are being held at Kitsap County Jail. Bail is set at $100,000 for Buckner and Schrader. Bail for Sauer is set at $250,000.

Whit McLeod, owner of the store and uncle of Josh McLeod, said he’s relieved the situation wasn’t worse.

“I’m just glad nobody got hurt,” McLeod said. “You’re always worried that sometime this might happen.”

McLeod said Chamberlain’s eyes were still swollen shut Oct. 9. He told her and Josh not to come in the next day.

“Obviously, I gave them the day off,” he said.