Robbers Elude Security Guards, Hit Music Center
In a brazen morning robbery, two armed men tied up an employee at the Music Center on Monday and made off with $17,500 in checks, cash, credit card receipts and jewelry, police said.
A spokesman for the downtown Los Angeles center said the men, wearing ski masks and armed with a knife and a handgun, may have entered the concessions office through an employee entrance sometime after 8 a.m. He said there will be an investigation to determine how the robbers got past the building’s security officers.
Before she was bound, the employee was forced to take the robbers to a safe in the basement where the receipts from the weekend sales were kept, said Los Angeles Police Lt. Louis Trovato. The robbers made her open the safe and give up a diamond ring on her finger, he said.
Police said they could not immediately determine how much cash was taken, but Trovato said the robbers will have a hard time cashing the checks.
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