Crime & Safety
Women Robbed of Purses at Gunpoint on La Mesa Boulevard
Suspects are two black males seen fleeing on foot.
First posted Wednesday at 10:30 p.m., updated Thursday at 9 a.m.
La Mesa police were on the lookout for two men who threatened a pair of women with a handgun and a crowbar while robbing them of their purses.
The robbery in the 8100 block of La Mesa Boulevard was reported at 10:05 p.m. Wednesday, according to a La Mesa police statement.
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The robbers approached the women from behind and later fled on foot, police said. Neither woman was hurt.
Police described the gunman as black, in his 20s, with a mustache or goatee. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and baggy pants. His crowbar-wielding accomplice was described as black, in his 20s, last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.
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