Two street vendors were forced to the ground at gunpoint early Thursday during a robbery in East Los Angeles, according to Lt. Durant of the East Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Patrol Station.
Officials received a call of a robbery at 2:50 a.m. in the 5400 block of Whittier Boulevard after three armed men approached the vendors at a taco truck.
A cellphone and an undisclosed amount of cash were taken from the victims. The group of men fled after.
A watch commander said the robbery was "similar" to another crime committed in the Florence area of South Los Angeles.
At 12:40 a.m., sheriffs received a call of a robbery near the intersection of 77th Street and Hooper Avenue.
Three men approached street vendors at a taco stand and took a cellphone, wallet and bag of money. Two of the men approached a man who was loading a truck to leave for the night while the last robber approached a woman.
Like in the similar crime, the group of men fled the scene. The robbers are described as young men between the ages of 18-to-23-years-old.
