Three men were arrested after they allegedly committed a series of robberies of convenience stores in Redwood City early Tuesday morning, according to police.
The Redwood City Police Department said that around 1 a.m. Tuesday, its officers were alerted to an armed robbery at a 7-Eleven store at Fifth Avenue and Bay Road. A victim described three people, who reportedly went inside a store. One of them brandished a revolver and they robbed the business. They fled in a vehicle in the direction of southbound Bay Road. As officers investigated this, police learned of another robbery around 1:20 a.m. at another 7-Eleven at 400 El Camino Real.
The dispatcher notified our dispatchers of the connection.' Around 1:40 a.m., an officer spotted three people, matching the suspects' descriptions, behind a Denny's restaurant at Broadway and Woodside Road in Redwood City. All three were wearing ski masks and moving towards the front of the restaurant, allegedly about to commit another robbery. But as officers began to respond, the suspects saw police and fled on foot in different directions.
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