Hollister
– Police are investigating two Sunday night armed robberies that
are the latest in a string of business holdups that have occurred
here over the past three weekends.
Hollister – Police are investigating two Sunday night armed robberies that are the latest in a string of business holdups that have occurred here over the past three weekends.
Two men armed with handguns robbed the Super Taqueria restaurant on Tres Pinos Road at 10:15pm, then robbed G&J Liquor on San Felipe Road at 10:30pm, said Officer Rosie Betanio, a spokeswoman for the Hollister Police Department.
Police believe the same men committed both robberies on Sunday, Betanio said, and that they might also be responsible for robberies on April 1 at El Grullense, a restaurant on Fourth Street, and on April 7 at Neighborhood Pizza on Tres Pinos Road.
“It has similarities to the robbery of El Grullense and Neighborhood Pizza,” she said.
The men who robbed Super Taqueria on Sunday entered through the front door and exited through the restaurant’s back door, Betanio said. Further details were not available Monday because the police report had not been completed, she said.
Employees at the restaurant declined to speak about the robbery on Monday.
At G&J Liquors, a little more than a mile away from the taqueria, a lone clerk was restocking selves Sunday when two men, described as about 6 feet tall with shirts pulled over their heads, entered the store and began taking money from the cash register, Betanio said.
The clerk yelled and one of the men turned around and pointed a black handgun at the clerk, police said.
The men left through the front entrance with about $600 in cash, Betanio said.
On April 1, El Grullense was robbed at gunpoint by two men wearing black nylon masks, gloves, and hoods and hats. About $800 in cash was taken during the robbery, which occurred at 11:31pm, police said.
The men involved in that robbery were both described as 5-foot-10 and about 225 pounds, police said.
On April 7, Neighborhood Pizza was robbed at knifepoint by a lone man wearing a black, long-sleeve shirt, gray sweat pants and a black nylon stocking cap. He entered through the restaurant’s front door at 11:50pm, demanded money from the cash register, and then left through the back door.
The knife-wielding robber was described as a caucasian man, approximately 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds, police said.
Michael Van Cassell covers public safety for the Free Lance. He can be reached at 831-637-5566 ext. 335 or [email protected].
