THOUSAND OAKS : Connection Between Holdups Investigated
Ventura County sheriff’s deputies are trying to determine whether two armed robberies in Thousand Oaks early Saturday morning were related, officials said.
The two incidents occurred about 25 minutes apart, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
In the first robbery, a Thousand Oaks woman and an Agoura woman standing near a newsstand on Hodencamp Road were robbed at gunpoint at 1:05 a.m. by three men, officials said. The men demanded one of the victims’ car keys, they said, but ran from the scene when two bystanders appeared.
The second robbery, at 1:30 a.m., involved an Oxnard man and a Thousand Oaks woman who were ordered out of a 1976 Chevrolet Malibu on Greenwich Drive by a man with a handgun, sheriff’s officials said.
After the couple left the car, according to officials, three other men arrived, one with a handgun. They said the four men drove away in the victims’ car.
No one was injured in either incident, officials said.
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