Lovers’ store employees robbed at gunpoint
July 28, 2009
By Staff
Two employees at Lovers, 5614-C E. Lake Sammamish Parkway, were robbed at gunpoint by a man who demanded cash from their register at 2:32 p.m. July 24.The employees gave him an undisclosed amount of cash from their till, according to Issaquah Police Cmdr. Stan Conrad.
The man was in the store earlier and then came back to rob it, witnesses said.
He is described as a heavy-set white male, between 20 and 25, who is between 5-feet, 10-inches and 6 feet tall. He has bushy eyebrows, a cleft chin and two to three days of facial hair growth, police said.
He was wearing a dark knit cap, gray sweatshirt and blue jeans.
“The boldness of it,” Conrad said of the robbery, is unusual. “Normally, someone wouldn’t pick such a busy place.”
All of the businesses in the strip mall near Lovers were open at that time and there were people milling about, so police are hoping someone might have seen something, Conrad said.
During a search of the area, which also involved Normandy Park Police Department’s K9 unit, police found a sweatshirt and cap believed to have been worn by the suspect across the street in a parking lot. Police also found a pellet gun near the same area. All of the items are being processed as evidence, Conrad said.
“Possibly, someone had seen him when he fled, or when he had to take off his sweatshirt,” Conrad said.
A third store employee was working at the time, but was in the back of the store.
Police are asking for anyone with any information to call the department’s main line at 837-3200 and ask for the detective unit.
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