When a man comes in and demands Gary Spirito's car keys, the host of the Shopping Mania Auction Show thinks it is a joke. He soon informs his audience the robbery taking place before them is all too real.

Baffled, Spirito addressed the alleged robbery directly. "Then I looked up at him and said, 'We're doing a live show here and there's probably hundreds of people out there right now calling the police to come down on this building, just so you know,'" he says.

The suspect did not escape with any valuables and, thanks to 911 calls made by viewers, Fort Smith police caught the two male suspects early Friday morning.

Eddie Crisp, 23, and Timothy Suggs, 22, are accused of robbing Keith Cox, owner of the Legacy Motor Co., at about 11 p.m. Thursday. One hour later, police say, they robbed Spirito.

The pair face two counts of aggravated robbery and probation violations.