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Antioch coin store robbed
By Kelli Phillips
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
ANTIOCH - A man posing as a customer robbed a coin shop at gunpoint Wednesday, leaving the owner tied up in the back, police said.
The owner of Antioch Coin and Supply was closing up for the day about 7:50 p.m. when a man entered the store and began looking around, an Antioch police news release said.
The customer then produced a handgun and ordered the owner to the back of the store, firing one shot into the building's western wall. The robber bound the owner's hands and feet before ransacking the store and fleeing through a back door, the release said.
Police say the victim was eventually able to free himself and call 911. It's unclear exactly what was stolen.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Antioch Police Department's investigation bureau at 925-779-6926.
By Kelli Phillips
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
ANTIOCH - A man posing as a customer robbed a coin shop at gunpoint Wednesday, leaving the owner tied up in the back, police said.
The owner of Antioch Coin and Supply was closing up for the day about 7:50 p.m. when a man entered the store and began looking around, an Antioch police news release said.
The customer then produced a handgun and ordered the owner to the back of the store, firing one shot into the building's western wall. The robber bound the owner's hands and feet before ransacking the store and fleeing through a back door, the release said.
Police say the victim was eventually able to free himself and call 911. It's unclear exactly what was stolen.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Antioch Police Department's investigation bureau at 925-779-6926.
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What a horrible thing to go through. I hope the owner of the shop was not injured and I hope the police catch the robber and he gets tossed in the slammer.
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I think a handful of Mercury dimes would be more devious. Remember "Marathon Man," where Dustin Hoffman told Laurence Olivier he could take with him all the diamonds he could eat? They didn't go down very easily.
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Do coin shop owners like the darker, winter, months less?
If I had a coin shop, I might think about closing earlier as the days get shorter since I would think it would be more dangerous.
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