Starbucks customers help capture robbers who stole woman’s laptop, police say
Berkeley police say Starbucks customers helped them capture armed robbers who made off with a woman’s laptop.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that two Oakland men, ages 19 and 22, were arrested for the apparent robbery at a Starbucks about a mile from the campus of UC Berkeley.
Police said witnesses described a man ripping a laptop away from a woman and heading for the exit, but a customer moved to block the door. The robber pulled out a gun, police said, and the customer moved away from the door.
Police said a Starbucks patron told them a getaway vehicle and driver were waiting for the man. Berkeley Police spokesman Sgt. Andrew Frankel said officers caught up with the bandits and recovered the laptop.
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