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iPhone Sale Arranged Online Ends With Armed Robbery

Police are searching for a suspect that pulled a gun on a man selling iPhones on the Internet.

What was supposed to be a meeting between a man selling iPhones and a potential client in an industrial area Friday night turned into an armed robbery, according to Temecula police.

Police said the man selling iPhones arranged sales through a popular web site, and met the suspect around 10 p.m. in the 42000 block of Winchester Road, an industrial area west of Interstate 15 with several closed businesses.

When the man arrived at the location with the iPhones, the suspect walked up to his vehicle, grabbed one of the phones and pulled out a handgun, according to Sgt. Geoff Green. The suspect ordered the man to turn over another iPhone and his wallet, but the victim drove off and called police.

Officers arrived within minutes and searched the area for the suspect—including setting up a perimeter and conducting several vehicle stops—but he was able to get away. The suspect was described as a thin Hispanic male, approximately 20 years old, around 6 feet tall, 165 pounds, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

Police are asking anyone with information about the suspect to call the Riverside Sheriff’s Department’s Temecula station at (951) 696-3000, or dispatch at (951) 776-1099. 

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Brenda December 1, 2012 at 04:50 pm
Selling Iphones in a dark, closed up industrial section of Temecula from Craigslist? Hmmm, and he doesnt think he might get robbed of his surely "HOT" merchandise? Who has that many Iphones first off and who is stupid enough to pick such a location for selling them? At least do it in a bar or store or something.
If this IPhone seller gets on and reads this, how did you get all the Iphones?
JJ Mclure December 1, 2012 at 04:59 pm
I thought they come to pick lettuce
KB December 1, 2012 at 05:09 pm
Most Temecula Residents: You need to understand that much of Riverside and San Bernardino county is ghetto, and these vermin will often come to Temecula looking for prey.
Wake Up!
Galactic Cannibal December 2, 2012 at 01:22 am
JJ Mclure;
I thought they come to pick lettuce Your comment is 100% bigoted. Does the Mayor of Los Angeles pick lettuce . Here's my question for you Is he Mayor of los Angeles Black...White....Yellow.......Hispanic......Half Caste When you live in America you live in a nation of mongrels (Human that is) Second question Are you ....Black....White....Yellow....Hispanic ....Half Caste?? Have a nice day Dude
Cash December 2, 2012 at 02:19 am
All of Riverside and San Bernardino are ghetto. Including Temecula!
On the right side December 2, 2012 at 03:26 am
Idiot!!!!
S December 2, 2012 at 12:56 pm
If you all don't like Riverside, San Bernadino area, why don't you go back to Orange County with the rest of the phonies with spray on tans and fake everything (you know what I mean).........
Bret D. Rijke December 3, 2012 at 01:46 am
@ Galactic Cannibal;
Hispanics are 3.3 times more likely to be in prison than whites; they are 4.2 times more likely to be in prison for murder, and 5.8 times more likely to be in prison for felony drug crimes.Young Hispanics are 19 times more likely than young whites (and slightly more likely than young blacks) to be in youth gangs. Doesn't sound like JJ Mclure is so bigoted if he is just saying a truth. Unless you maintain that facts are of themselves, bigoted.
Ponce de Leon December 3, 2012 at 02:39 am
@Bret - How do prison and crime statistics back up the statement "I thought they come to pick lettuce"? And how do you go from a description of one guy involved in a possible robbery to generalizations about a group of people whose common characteristic is that they have some historical connection to Spain? Or was there some other statement made by JJ Mclure that is no longer here?
Bret D. Rijke December 3, 2012 at 03:10 am
@ Ponce;
They back up the insinuation made by JJ Mclure and blasted by Cannibal as being bigoted. Really, it isn't that difficult is it to connect the dots? And incarceration and arrest statistics are important. They show who is what to whom. If, by his tongue in cheek insinuation, Mclure is saying he thought they were here to only pick lettuce, but the lead story is about a crime, I think you can figure it out. And, the statistics support him. As for the "Spain" versus "Hispanic"... just using the PC terminology. What would you have me call them?
JJ Mclure December 3, 2012 at 10:57 am
the Mayor of Los Angeles...Tony Vilar....actually has stated many times they pick lettuce and clean our toilets.
SA December 4, 2012 at 03:40 pm
In regards to this article at hand… simply putting it … Being stupid should hurt …. Orange County has junkies, winos, pimps and whores just like every other county.
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djschristensen3 June 9, 2013 at 09:35 am
Was that the grand finale ? Cellarz93 is closed now. So sad, a wonderful gem in the Valley.
LAKE ELSINORE RESIDENT May 28, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Watch this video, it's directly across the street from a large aggregate mining operation. thinkRead More crystalline silica. Aggregate trucks drive in front of this club constantly it's a haul road. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhckrqXX-L4
Brenda June 2, 2013 at 02:58 am
All comes down to getting the "GOLD" Balanced right in the big City Hall right? We areRead More broke we are broke! We have how many more million dollar residents, ranches, farms who pay taxes, how many more business's, triple, quadruple, on and on that pay taxes, and some very large business's at that for YEARS. Yet Murietta and Menifee with just the few they have can manage to not only put in side walks, AND ALSO ACTULLY Listen their residents, instead of call them names like Paul has been, concerns and respond to them. Hell we are just now getting some attention to our driving issues with running red lights, speeding, not stopping at stop signs, driving drunk, high, or wreeklessly causing deaths and serious injuries to walkers, bike riders, skate board, scooter riders, wheelchairs, motor bike riders, and other cars. But how many lives were lost or severly disabled until we just now the last 2 weeks have been giving traffic details for different areas, cell phone details, etc. Lucky to get some sidewalks finished in 10 years if someone doesnt figure out where our "Gold" is we all pay in. And stop calling names people at the City meetings to Paul or anyone else trying to get our City to do what its there for. By the time someone in your own family is killed they will be laughing at you for standing up asking for sidewalks right? Just like on the "Patch" comment areas, always calling names instead of sticking with your fellow Temeculites and getting us something DONE! Before we loose more lives