Holdup, Attempted Robbery Investigated
Police are trying to determine whether two men wanted in an attempted armed robbery in the El Rio area on election night are the same men who robbed an Oxnard gas station clerk half an hour later.
The first incident happened about 6 p.m. when a 24-year-old Oxnard man using a pay phone at Stroube Street and Vineyard Avenue felt a gun at his head and heard a man say, “Don’t say nothing,” according to Ventura County Sheriff’s Capt. Richard Diaz.
The man on the phone pushed the gun away at which point the gunman fired into the air, Diaz said.
Both men ran in opposite directions, and the man with the gun met up with another man before leaving the area on foot.
Diaz described the gunman as Latino, in his early 20s, 5 foot 10 to 6 feet tall, 150 pounds and wearing a dark beanie, dark T-shirt and dark pants. His accomplice had the same description, but wore a white T-shirt.
About 30 minutes later, Oxnard police officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at a gas station at Rose Avenue and Lockwood Drive.
Two men, with descriptions similar to the men involved in the El Rio incident, pointed a handgun at a clerk and made off with an undisclosed amount of money, authorities said.
There were no injuries in either incident. The investigation is continuing.
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