The Denver metro area’s so-called 32 Bandit might be one or both of two 17-year-old boys arrested after an armed robbery in San Bernardino County , Calif., authorities there said.
Their names were not released because they are juveniles. One was described by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department as white, 5 feet, 11 inches tall and 157 pounds, and the other was described as 5 feet, 7 inches tall and 145 pounds.
Besides the robbery in California, they are suspected of 28 in the Denver metro area, mostly at sandwich shops and small retail businesses in east Denver and west Aurora since January.
At about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, a young man with a pistol and a gray hoodie, robbed a store in Rancho Cucamonga and then robbed another nearby about 15 minutes later, the Sheriff Department said.
Two off-duty Los Angeles County law enforcement officers saw him speed away in a gray Honda Accord with Colorado license plates and at least one of the pair was arrested a short time later.
When they were arrested, authorities found the pair were suspects in the 32 Bandit robberies in Denver, in which one of them allegedly wore a hoodie with the number 32 on it in one of the early robberies.
“A Task Force had been formed in the Denver area to locate the suspects before they fled to California,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department stated this afternoon.
