7-11 robber sports skinny jeans from Manhatan Beach to the OC
ARCO gas station video surveillance caught images of what Manhattan Beach police call the “Emo Bandit” because of his fashion. Photo courtesy Hermosa Beach Police DepartmentAn armed robbery at a local convenience store earlier this month is thought by police to be one of a string of six similar robberies stretching from the South Bay to Orange County, authorities said this week. Shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 10, a man wearing a red bandana over his face allegedly had a black semi-automatic handgun drawn when he entered a 7-Eleven convenience store, 1221 Artesia Blvd. and demanded a store clerk load all the money in a cash register into a backpack, police said. “It was immediate,” said Manhattan Beach Police Detective Michael Rosenberger. “He opened the door already pointing a gun, saying something to the effect of ‘This is a robbery.’ One clerk thought it was a joke.” Two employees, both in their early 20s, were the only people present in the store at the time of the robbery, Rosenberger said. Police said the suspect kept the gun pointed at both employees during the incident. Neither was injured. Police declined to disclose the exact amount the suspect took off with, but said that…
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