San Diego : Bookstores Target of Robberies
Three businesses in San Diego were robbed within 4 1/2 hours Friday night and Saturday morning, two of which were bookstores from which books and cash were stolen, police said.
The first of the three robberies occurred at 8:37 p.m. Friday in the 3300 block of Rosecrans Street at Waldenbooks. A man wearing a brown sports jacket and red shirt walked in with a gun and took cash and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf’s autobiography, “It Doesn’t Take a Hero,” police said.
The second robbery occurred in the 5600 block of Mission Center Road at 9:07 p.m. at Crown Books. A man in his 40s wearing a tweed blazer, a red shirt and brandishing a handgun stole cash and a copy of Anne Rice’s “The Tale of the Body Thief.” He is believed to be the same man who robbed Waldenbooks.
At 12:58 a.m. Saturday, two men wearing ski caps robbed the Hospitality Inn in the 9300 block of Kearny Mesa Road of cash. One fired a gun into the air and both fled on a small motorcycle. There were no injuries, police said.
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