Seven Napa robberies during weekend
By CARLOS VILLATORO
Register Staff Writer
The Napa Police Department has been busy over the weekend working a string of strong-arm robberies, and one attempted robbery, that began on Friday evening. Officers responded to three more robberies Saturday and one on Sunday morning, bringing the total to seven confirmed crimes.
The first of the Saturday incidents occured in a hallway at McPherson Elementary School at 5:39 p.m. A 44-year-old Napa man reported that two Hispanic juveniles approached him and demanded his property. He gave them some cash and the robbers fled east through the school grounds. The man was not injured and described the robbers as two Hispanic men, about 17 years old, wearing dark pants and plaid shirts.
Then at 9 p.m., another Napa man reported that two robbers, with a description similar to those of the McPherson robbers, approached him near Laurel and Homewood Streets and hit him. They took the man’s cell phone and cash, police said, and fled the area in a sedan. He sustained minor facial injuries when they struck him in the face.
About an hour later, a 35-year-old Napa man told police that he was walking to his home on Yajome Street from Memorial Stadium when he was approached by robbers fitting the description of the previous crimes, but this time they wore bandanas and dark, baggy-hooded sweatshirts. One of the robbers had a knife and they took his wallet. They fled on foot into McPherson Elementary School after the crime.
Finally, about a half hour after midnight Sunday, police responded to another robbery at McPherson. A 14-year-old boy reported that two robbers, fitting the description of Saturday’s incidents, beat him up and took some property from him. The boy was knocked to the ground and sustained a cut lip that requir ed stitches according to police reports.
Napa Police Sgt. Paul Paniagua said that police believe that these crimes, as well as three similar strong-arm robberies and one attempted robbery that happened Friday, were committed by the same men. Anyone with information about these crimes is asked to contact the Napa Police Department at 253 4451.
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