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A masked robber armed with a gun made off with an undisclosed amount of cash yesterday after robbing a Wells Fargo bank branch near the corner of Miramonte Avenue and Cuesta Drive in the Blossom Valley Shopping Center, according to police.
No one was hurt during the robbery.
According to police, the robber entered the bank at about 3 p.m. on May 22, brandished a dark colored handgun and demanded money.
A clerk handed the man an undisclosed amount of cash and he fled on foot, through the shopping center parking lot, said Sgt. Sean Thompson, public information officer with the Mountain View Police Department.
The shopping center was the site of a similar crime 11 days earlier. A man brandishing a gun robbed the China Cafe restaurant on May 11.
Thompson couldn’t say whether the crimes are related. In the China Cafe robbery, the culprit was a man who stood about 5 feet 8 inches tall, according to the victim. That robber obscured his face with a hooded sweatshirt. The bank robber was said to be about 5 feet 10 inches tall and also a man.
B of A in MV has an armed guard in front, 1/2 block away from Wells Fargo, looks like it paid off.
Crime is getting out of hand in Mountain View. I used to feel safe here not anymore.
my roomate came home and said this was happening.. i dont feel safe in mv anymore… a clerk told me too that houses in the area were also being broken into.. its scary.. ;(
This area is expensive. There is extreme wealth amongst us and this drives up the cost of living for all of us. There is also poverty and people who are surviving on the fringes of this Silicon Valley dreamland. There is NO EXCUSE for crime, and I am not defending this criminal. Just saying that this is a symptom of a wider problem.
C’mon “ResEDent”, spare me. The problem you cite has existed throughout time, and worldwide. Nobody is forced to live in Silicon Valley. If I couldn’t afford to live here at the livestyle I desire, I’d go somewhere less expensive.
There are much larger income gaps (and less opportunity to “make it”) in other countries. If a poor person used a gun to try to rob a bank in China or Saudi Arabia…how do you think that would turn out?
And the “symptom” you cite is also arguable. Many criminals use their spoils to pay for drugs or indulgences; not for rent or college for their kids.
Either way you look at it, crime is up in MV. Home and commercial robberies are on the rise during daylight hours. People should be more concerned and should be more vigilent!
Where is MVPD? Should they be working on preventing these crimes instead of writing revenue generating traffic tickets?
@ Mr Advice,
This wasn’t the downtown branch. Blossom Valley Shopping Center is near Cuesta Park.