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YUMA, Ariz. (KSWT News 13) - Police say two men, one armed with a gun and wearing a Halloween-type mask, walked into the hotel, ordered the clerk to lie on the floor, and demanded money.More >> Police say two men, one armed with a gun and wearing a Halloween-type mask, walked into the hotel, ordered the clerk to lie on the floor, and demanded money.
More >> Web Reporter: Lucy Valencia YUMA, Ariz. (KSWT News 13) - Yuma Police are looking for a masked man who robbed a local Subway at gunpoint on New Year's Day. Police say the robber wore a Halloween maskMore >> Yuma Police are looking for a masked man who robbed a local Subway at gunpoint on New Year's Day.More >> YUMA, AZ - The Yuma Police Department says a suspect remains on the loose after robbing a hotel at gun point last night. YPD says it happened around 11pm Saturday at the Ramada Inn located on the 300 block of East 32nd Street.More >> An update on armed robbery that took place this weekend in Yuma at the Ramada Inn.More >> A Yuma hotel is robbed at gun point and the suspect is still on the loose.More >>
YUMA – KSWT News 13 viewers might be experiencing some déjà vu tonight. If the armed robbery at the Ramada Inn rings a familiar bell, it's not surprising. And not because they've been robbed three times since last January.
KSWT news 13 ran a very similar story about a separate armed robbery on January 2nd. It was a Subway restaurant and not a Ramada Inn, and the robberies were four miles apart from each other.
But the suspect description is uniquely similar. In both armed robberies, one of the suspects is described as about 5' 4" tall wearing an old man Halloween type mask. Does that mean the same person robbed both places?
Yuma police say not necessarily.
Short of physical evidence, such as DNA or clear surveillance video, detectives working armed robbery cases do not assume similar descriptions of criminals (or crimes) necessarily connect them.
But when they do catch a crook, police take a long hard look at a number of criteria to see if the criminal they have in custody might have committed other crimes in the past.
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