Police: Calif. robber holds up 11 people, nets $6
Police artist's sketch of perpetrator.
March 10, 2010 THERMAL, Calif. (AP) --
A Sheriff's Department statement said a woman, armed with a semi-automatic pistol entered the La Chicanita Market in the town of Thermal on Tuesday afternoon.
Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela says the woman confronted 10 customers in the store and also demanded money from one person who was entering the market. She collected a total of $6 from the hapless store patrons, then fled in an old car.
Nobody was hurt.
After interviewing several of the victims a police sketch artist prepared the above composite picture of the woman, which was being circulated to law enforcement officials in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Bismarck, No. Dakota. Police said the woman was armed, considered extremely dangerous and should be approached with caution.
Income from larceny is believed to have fallen by more than 25% in the area, which in turn has impacted cocaine and marijuana sales while numerous topless clubs have been forced to go bottomless, too, in order to maintain revenues.
A spokeswoman for the California Nude Dancers Association, who refused to provide her bust size, said if the recession doesn't ease up soon many female strippers and exotic dancers might have to go back to work at Wal-Mart, Target, Family Dollar or Sacs Fifth Avenue.
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