Local News in Brief : Costa Mesa : Police Searching for Suspect in Holdups
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Police are searching for a man wearing red tennis shoes who robbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant Thursday and who is a suspect in at least two other holdup attempts at fast food eateries.
The man walked through a rear door at the restaurant in the 400 block of East 17th Street about 10:30 a.m. and pointed a revolver at three employees, Police Lt. Gary Webster said. The man told one to open the safe, then ordered all three into a walk-in freezer, instructing them not to move for five minutes. He fled with $350, Webster said.
The man is described as about 25 years old, 6 feet tall, with brown hair and wearing jeans and red tennis shoes, Webster said.
About 30 minutes earlier, police said, a man fitting the general description of the Costa Mesa robber tried to rob the Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 17000 block of Brookhurst Street in Fountain Valley. Fountain Valley Police Lt. Rod Gillman said that when the man confronted employees at that restaurant, one of the workers began to cry and he fled.
Webster said police are also investigating whether the Costa Mesa robber may have held up another Kentucky Fried Chicken in Huntington Beach Monday night. Two people, one of them armed, took $200 in a holdup in the 21000 block of Brookhurst Street.
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