Colorado Springs police are looking for an armed robber with “crooked and unusually gapped” teeth.
Police believe the robber committed two crimes last night in the same general area within minutes of each other, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department crime blotter.
The first incident happened at about 8 p.m. near a Goodyear Service Center, 3600 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., police said.
A 22-year-old man was working on a load in his truck when he was approached by a man who identified himself as a CIA agent and demanded that the truck owner “surrender” the vehicle.
“The suspect then grabbed the victim and attempted to remove his wallet from his rear pants pocket,” the blotter said. The victim was able to get into his truck and safely drive away.
Within the hour, near the 3800 block of Half Turn Road, a man approached a woman in an apartment complex parking lot and asked for a cigarette. The woman said she didn’t smoke and the man left, police said.
The woman gathered some items from her car and was walking to her apartment when the man reappeared and began small talk. The man then brandished a handgun and demanded money, police said.
The woman told the armed robber she “only had a couple of bucks” and he refused it. Instead, he offered to escort the victim to her apartment.
“She just sat down, said no, and placed her backpack on the landing,” police said.
The robber grabbed the victim’s laptop computer, valued at $2,000, and fled south toward Village Green Park.
He remains at large.
Police describe the robber as a black man, between the ages of 25 to 30, about 5-feet, 8-inches to 6-feet 2-inches tall, with a short- to medium-length “afro-style” haircut. The robber “has a distinctive array of teeth…crooked and unusually gapped,” police said.
Anyone with information on either crime, or on a possible suspect, is asked to call the Colorado Springs Police Department at 719 444-7000.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
