Restaurant Manager Robbed of Receipts

Authorities are searching for two armed suspects following the Monday afternoon robbery of an El Pollo Loco restaurant manager in Camarillo.

The manager, Mario Sanchez, 28, was preparing to drive from the Las Posas Road restaurant to a nearby bank to deposit the restaurant’s daily receipts when two Latino men described as being in their late teens or early 20s approached his white Ford Mustang.

One of the suspects pointed a handgun at Sanchez, telling him to unlock his passenger side door. The two men got into the car and told Sanchez to drive away from the restaurant and then to stop in a residential area on Calle la Roda.

When Sanchez pulled over, one of the suspects took the bag containing the restaurant’s deposits, and then ordered Sanchez out of the car. The suspects drove off, and Sanchez ran to a nearby pay phone to call police.

Sheriff’s deputies found the Mustang abandoned two blocks away. Witnesses said two men got out of the Mustang and into a red sport utility vehicle driven by another person.

Sanchez was uninjured, and the amount of money stolen was not revealed.