Crime & Safety

Police Search for Armed Robber

The man was last seen running east on Rancho California Road near Business Park Drive.

Police were scouring a neighborhood in west Temecula today after an armed man held up a female security guard at gunpoint.

The robbery was reported about 2:30 p.m. near the intersection of Rancho California Road and Business Park, according to a sheriff's dispatcher.

Temecula sheriff's deputies, Murrieta police officers, a bloodhound and a helicopter were searching for the suspect, described as a black male adult, in his early 20s, about 6-feet-tall and weighing between 180-200 pounds.

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Anyone with information was asked to call Sheriff's investigators at (951)696-3000.


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