Armed burglary
A recycling facility was robbed last week when a suspect allegedly attacked an employee and demanded money from the facility’s cash box.
The suspect walked into the rePlant at 1000 North Rengstorff Ave. shortly before closing time on Friday, Oct. 16, at around 4 p.m. The suspect approached one of the employees, a 23-year-old Sunnyvale man, while he was counting the money in the cash box, and punched him in the head before knocking him to the ground, according to police spokeswoman Leslie Hardie.
The suspect pressed something up to the back of the victim’s head, which the victim believes was a gun, and then kicked him in the torso multiple times before leaving the facility with the cash box, Hardie said. The cash box contained approximately $600 dollars in cash.
The victim described the suspect as a 28-year-old light-skinned man, 5-foot, 8-inches tall with a “chunky” build, black hair and a mustache. The victim declined medical attention.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Mountain View Police Department at 650-903-6344 and refer to case number 15-6451.
Woman robbed at gunpoint
A 65-year-old San Mateo woman was robbed at gunpoint in Mountain View last week after the suspect took her cellphone and keys.
The woman was sitting in her parked car on Terminal Boulevard on Friday afternoon on Oct. 16 when the suspect, described as a Hispanic boy between 14 and 17 years old with short black hair, approached the vehicle and asked to use her phone, according to police spokeswoman Leslie Hardie.
When the woman got out of her vehicle, the suspect pushed a gun to her stomach, Hardie said.
The suspect took the woman’s cellphone and keys and fled the area on foot. The woman waited a few minutes before flagging down someone to use their phone to call police, Hardie said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Mountain View Police Department at 650-903-6344 and refer to case number 15-6451.
Auto repair shop burglary
Police are looking for any information regarding suspects who forced their way into the Eco Lube on 500 W. El Camino Real over the weekend and made off with the cash register.
Police were alerted to the burglary after an alarm had gone off at the auto repair shop at around 6:45 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18. There, officers found that the glass door into the building had been shattered, according to police spokeswoman Leslie Hardie.
The business owner found that a cash register with $100 in cash had been taken, but there was no other theft or damage to the business, Hardie said.
Police have no surveillance footage of the incident or suspect information.
Kevin Forestieri
