Santa Barbara Sheriff’s detectives are searching for a suspect who robbed the Calle Real CVS Pharmacy while armed with a gun late Sunday night. According to a Sheriff’s Office press release, the suspect — described as a white male between 5-foot-10-inches and 6-feet tall and between 160 and 180 pounds — walked directly to the cashier, demanded the cashier give him money from the drawer under threat of a gun, and left the store with an unnamed amount of money. The suspect was reportedly wearing a mask that disguised him as an old man.
Sheriff’s deputies are working with the Grover Beach Police Department in its investigation of an alleged armed robbery by a similarly masked suspect on Sunday at the Monarch Grove Winery.