Sarasota, Florida

From the Bradenton Herald of August 28, 2005
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Robbery attempted

An armed man and a woman tried to rob a jewelry store Saturday for the second time in three months, authorities said.

The male robber pointed a black semi-automatic gun at the clerk at K's Jeweler on Bee Ridge Road about 9:30 a.m. and told the clerk not to move, according to a Sarasota County Sheriff's Office report. When the clerk tried to move to the back of the store, the armed man stopped him.

As the clerk reached for a gun in an ankle holster, the male robber jumped at him, the report stated. They wrestled for the clerk's firearm but the robber got it. He then ran away from the store with his partner, a woman.

The clerk told authorities that the male robber was wearing a slim, black, nylon "mask" around his eye and nose area, and that the woman had chin-length hair in dreadlocks, according to the report. The couple drove away in a black four-door Mitsubishi or Nissan with tinted windows.