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ROBBERY SUSPECT ELUDES CAPTURE.


Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer

A 17-year-old robbery suspect Noun 1. robbery suspect - someone suspected of committing robbery
suspect - someone who is under suspicion
 escaped capture Tuesday morning after he changed his appearance and walked through a barricaded bar·ri·cade  
n.
1. A structure set up across a route of access to obstruct the passage of an enemy.

2. Something that serves as an obstacle; a barrier. See Synonyms at bulwark.

tr.v.
 area set up to capture him, sheriff's officials said.

``He was wearing one color during the robbery and a totally different color later,'' said Sgt. Steve Nelson
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. ``He walked right through the containment.'' The Lancaster youth is suspected of robbing a Coco's employee, Bertha ber·tha  
n.
A wide deep collar, often of lace, that covers the shoulders of a dress.



[French berthe, after Bertha (died 783), Carolingian queen as the wife of Pepin the Short.]
 Gurra, 44, of Lancaster at gunpoint as she walked from her car in a rear parking lot to the restaurant on West Avenue K shortly before 6 a.m.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 Nelson, the teen approached Gurra and asked her for her purse. Gurra gave him a plastic bag containing her personal items, including her wallet, which contained about $100.

The youth fled, but was spotted by a sheriff's deputy minutes later walking in a field near the restaurant.

``As the deputy approached, the suspect took off,'' said Nelson. ``The deputy then chased him home about a quarter of a mile away.''

During the chase, the youth dropped a weapon, which deputies were able to recover.

The deputy lost sight of the youth after he ran into the large apartment complex. As deputies set up a containment around the complex and awaited for a police dog unit to arrive, they were approached by the youth's mother.

``She told the deputies that she believed her son was the suspect they were looking for Looking for

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,'' said Nelson.

``She said that (her son) had run into the house, said that the police were chasing him, ran upstairs, changed his appearance and ran back out.''
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jul 17, 1996
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