A man who threatened Taco Bell servers with a gun in Satellite Beach after they asked him to speed-up his order now faces decades in prison for firearm violations.
Brevard County prosecutors convicted BRIAN A. BAJANA, 41, on Oct. 31 of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Assistant State Attorneys Nader Hatoum and Francis DeMuro showed jurors evidence including three handguns obtained from Bajana’s bedroom under search warrants. A witness connected one of those guns to the incident at Taco Bell. The defense stipulated that Bajana was a convicted felon.
In a second case more focused on the armed threats at Taco Bell, Bajana pled no-contest Oct. 27 and was convicted of aggravated assault with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a person subject to a protective order for domestic battery, and another count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
For the convictions in both cases, Bajana could spend more than 30 years in prison. His sentencing has been scheduled for Dec. 3.
On June 25, 2025, Satellite Beach Police responded to a panic-button alarm at the Taco Bell on SR A1A. A 911 caller said a customer was circling the restaurant in his car, waving a handgun out the window.
One of the victims said she had asked the man to pick up the pace with deciding his drive-through order because other customers were backing up behind him. That’s when he brandished the handgun, warned workers not to rush him and said, “you don’t know who you’re messing with.”
The man was gone by the time police arrived, but a staff member gave police his license-tag number, and the incident was caught on security video. A Satellite Beach detective found the car – and Bajana – at a house in South Patrick Shores.
Two warranted searches of Bajana’s rented room by Satellite Beach Police and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office produced three handguns including a 9 mm Ruger that matched witnesses’ description of the blue-and-black gun the suspect used to threaten employees at the restaurant. They also found rounds of ammunition loose on the floor and a box of 42 rounds of ammunition on top of Bajana’s dresser.
Bajana’s felony convictions came in 2013 for domestic battery by strangulation in Monroe County and 2005 for cocaine possession in Palm Bay.