SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Police are investigating several take-over-style armed robberies overnight on Tuesday in multiple locations across San Diego County.
SDPD is greatly concerned by these crimes not only for the theft of property but for the potential for violence and loss of life.
Police said that these incidents occurred at convenience stores, typically later in the evening hours. The suspects have been described as young males wearing hoodies and masks.
SDPD said the suspects entered the businesses in groups of one to four, brandishing firearms at the clerk and demanding money as well as items from the store.
In some incidents, police said the suspects took entire cash drawers and registers.
San Diego Police said there have been no injuries so far, but there is a high potential for violence give the type of crimes.
Locations
- Bonsall: 5555 Mission Rd around 9:44 p.m.
- Deer Springs: 26915 Mesa Rock Rd. around 10:18 p.m.
- Grant Hill: 30th & Market around 11:28 p.m.
- Mira Mesa: 11205 Camino Ruiz around 11:39 p.m.
- Barrio Logan: 1145 S. 28th St. around 11:54 p.m.
- Lake Murray: 8780 Lake Murray Blvd. around 12:08 a.m.
- Santee: 9600 Carlton Hills Blvd. around 12:17 a.m.
- La Mesa: 4200 Spring St. around 12:22 a.m.
- Spring Valley: 9700 Campo Rd. around 12:27 a.m.
- Spring Valley: 481 Sweetwater Rd. around 12:34 a.m.
Lakeside: 10100 Maine Ave. around 12:47 a.m
"You have a group of between 1 and 4 people coming in with guns. Demanding money. Demanding property. In some cases taking a cash register and ripping it out and running out the store with it. That's pretty brazen," SDPD Lt. Adam Sharki told CBS 8.
Officers believe with this many people involved, usually somebody knows something.
If you have information, call the Robbery Unit at 619-531-2299 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477. For everyone else who may go to a gas station or convenience store or liquor store later in the evening or overnight, be on the lookout.
"We don’t want people to be afraid. We want people to be aware. If they see people casing a business. If you see people putting on masks, trying to conceal their identity, obviously if you see somebody carry a gun, they can call 911. These armed robberies contain a lot of risk for somebody to get hurt. We want to catch these people before that happens," Sharki said.