DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Three people face serious changes for using a pellet gun to rob three different people in Volusia County. Investigators said the gun looked like an Uzi.

The spree of robberies started across the Seabreeze Bridge in Holly Hill, then the trio of men robbed someone at a nearby 7-Eleven on Brentwood Drive before they hit the first person they saw at the Oleander and Oakridge intersection (see map). Cops said the likely plan was to go until they got caught.

When police first saw what appeared to be an Uzi inside the car, it looked all too real to them. After two people in Holly Hill reported being robbed by men with an Uzi, there was a similar report only minutes later and blocks away at a 7-Eleven then a few hundred yards away it happened again to two people on a street corner.

By that time, police were starting to close in on the group. Police spotted the car, pursued it through the city and finally forced it to stop. Inside they found jewelry, cell phones, computers and some items they said were being thrown out the windows during the chase.

The three men arrested had no criminal history and it was a pellet gun they were using, though they'd broken the red colored tip off the barrel to make it appear more real.

The law does not look at the crimes differently because a pellet gun was used. The three men are still charged with armed robbery and using a firearm in a crime.