Soyla Bernice Gobert, 30, is being held at the Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility in Santee after she allegedly tried to rob a La Jolla nail salon Oct. 16, police said. Lt. Jim Filley of the San Diego Police Department’s Northern Division said she allegedly entered Dan’s Nails & Spa, located at 8008 Girard Ave. at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday night and ordered everyone to the ground. She showed an air rifle, took money from the cash register and told customers to put their wallets in a bag, police said. When Gobert tried to leave, the salon owner and an employee chased her out of the store and tackled her in the street at the intersection of Prospect Street and Girard Avenue. R. Douglas Tondro, general manager of The Spot, saw the whole event unfold right in front of his restaurant, located at 1005 Prospect St. It looked like a brawl, he said. About four male passersby helped hold the suspect down until six police cars arrived, he said. “I heard someone scream ‘She has a gun,’ and then a man searched her bag and I heard him say he found the gun,” said Tondro. “The girl was screaming bloody murder. They put her in a cop car and she was kicking and screaming throughout the whole thing.” According to police reports, Gobert was wearing a blonde wig the night of the incident. She is charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of false imprisonment with violence. Her bail is set at $100,000. Mazi, the owner of Mazi Boutique, located directly underneath Dan’s Nails & Spa, said she was tired that Saturday evening, so she closed her shop around 6 p.m. — a bit earlier than usual. She said she is concerned that had she not done so, she might have been the victim. Her boutique is on the first level, and the robber had to pass right by it to walk upstairs to the nail salon. Mazi said she has dealt with shoplifters before. About seven months ago, she said, two women made off with some dresses from her boutique. But she’s never experienced anything like what happened at Dan’s Nails & Spa in the 20 years her shop has been open in La Jolla. “Had my door not been locked, she could have come in here first,” said Mazi, who declined to give her last name. “I’m truly blessed. I had angels all around me.”








