POINT LOMA –
Two robbers bound a clerk at a GameStop store in Point Loma yesterday and spent half an hour emptying shelves before leaving and locking up behind them, police said.
The clerk at the electronic games shop on Midway Drive freed himself and called San Diego police about 11:40 a.m.
He told officers that one robber arrived first and asked when the store opened. He returned after it opened at 10 a.m. and waited until the clerk was alone before asking for a specific game system, police Sgt. Garry Collins said.
The robber followed the clerk into a storage room, then showed a pistol and shoved the clerk to the floor. An accomplice put tape over the clerk's eyes and mouth and bound his hands and feet. The two removed merchandise over the next half-hour and used the worker's keys to lock up, Collins said.
The employee described the first robber as a Latino man in his 20s, with a scarred face, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, a stocky 180 pounds, in a dark green hooded sweat shirt.
The clerk said he never saw the second robber, who mentioned being 18 years old.
The first robber may have arrived in a late 1990s or early 2000 white Chevrolet Malibu or Impala.
Pauline Repard: (619) 293-1893; pauline.repard@uniontrib.com
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