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1 May
Which of these things is not like the other? Don’t answer that.
But do read Friday’s SJ Mercury News, which should include a story about the “Shotgun Bandits” and their arrest. Although their targets were mostly outside of WG, at least one suspect lived on Malone Road, where he was arrested earlier in April:
Last month, a group of masked robbers went on a dangerous spree, police said, bursting into at least a half dozen businesses armed with a sawed-off shotgun and snatching fistfuls of cash from the registers as employees and customers cowered in fear.
But investigators eventually caught up with the alleged robbers, after a sergeant became suspicious about a clerk at one of the targets - an lingerie and adult novelty store called Cupid’s Corner. …
Meanwhile, Sgt. Michael Montonye - in charge of the cases - began focusing on a clerk at Cupid’s Corner. Why did she seem so relaxed, facing down two men in black and a sawed off shotgun? Why hadn’t she pressed the store’s panic button?
“She looked too calm,” Montonye said.
Further investigation showed she had a boyfriend, an ex-convict who seemed to closely fit the description of one of the robbers. Police set up a surveillance on his home on Malone Road.
Cupid’s Corner is located on Blossom Hill Road, and was robbed on April 2, along with two other businesses. The group also hit a Subway in Campbell on April 17, and were arrested later that night.
Minutes after the robbery, two of the suspects - who police identified as Washington and Navarro - pulled up in the driveway where Tovar and Washington lived. Police moved in.
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