Two men suspected in a fast-food robbery spree fled from Holiday Court around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, after they threatened a Domino’s Pizza employee with handguns and collected several hundred dollars in cash.
The suspects, described as two black males in their 20s wearing black hooded sweatshirts, masks and gloves, entered the restaurants and demanded that the female victim remove money from the register, according to police reports.
One carried a silver semi-automatic handgun; the other man’s weapon could not be identified, police said.
One of the men jumped the counter, placed an undisclosed amount of cash into a plastic pizza bag and then demanded that the woman open the restaurant’s safe, which operated under a time lock.
After discovering that she could not get money from the vault, the suspects exited the building and drove away in an older white van, according to the report.
Police are searching for suspects and vehicles that meet the descriptions, which are almost identical to details given by four Mission Valley Carl’s Jr. employees who were robbed later that night, according to Lt. John Leas of the San Diego Police Department’s Robbery Unit.
“We think it’s the same guys,” Leas said. “The fact that they were back-to-back is kind of unusual, and it’s hard when all we have to go by is the white van.”
The suspects involved in the second robbery, which occurred around 11 p.m., were also black males clad in similar attire and armed with handguns, according to police reports.
When a male employee brought trash out through the restaurant’s back door, the suspects forced their way into the building, ordered a female manager to open the safe and cash registers and left through the front door with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to the report.
No customers appear to have been involved in either incident, according to Leas.
Police in SDPD’s robbery unit are handling the investigation.