And here we always thought marijuana was supposed to help you mellow.
Turns out not to be the case in a robbery that saw a 41-year-old employee of a Long Beach Medical Marijuana clinic shot as two armed bandits stole the store's pungent merchandise Monday afternoon.
The robbery began at about 2:10 p.m. when the suspects entered the marijuana clinic in the 2600 block of Magnolia Avenue.
One of the suspects pointed a handgun at an employee and threatened to shoot him while the other suspect gathered all the marijuana on hand, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
During the robbery, a scuffle broke out between one of the armed suspects and a customer inside the dispensary, resulting in the employee being shot in the lower body.
The two armed men -- described only as male Hispanics and 25 to 30 years old -- then fled the business on foot.
The victim, a 41-year-old male, was transported to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, Pratt said.
The robbery comes on the heels of a string of armed robberies in the Lakewood and Long Beach area, but this incident does not appear to be related, Pratt said.
"It's a different suspect description," she added.
Anyone with information regarding Monday's crime is asked to call Robbery Detective Don Collier at 562-570-7464.
Turns out not to be the case in a robbery that saw a 41-year-old employee of a Long Beach Medical Marijuana clinic shot as two armed bandits stole the store's pungent merchandise Monday afternoon.
The robbery began at about 2:10 p.m. when the suspects entered the marijuana clinic in the 2600 block of Magnolia Avenue.
One of the suspects pointed a handgun at an employee and threatened to shoot him while the other suspect gathered all the marijuana on hand, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
During the robbery, a scuffle broke out between one of the armed suspects and a customer inside the dispensary, resulting in the employee being shot in the lower body.
The two armed men -- described only as male Hispanics and 25 to 30 years old -- then fled the business on foot.
The victim, a 41-year-old male, was transported to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, Pratt said.
The robbery comes on the heels of a string of armed robberies in the Lakewood and Long Beach area, but this incident does not appear to be related, Pratt said.
"It's a different suspect description," she added.
Anyone with information regarding Monday's crime is asked to call Robbery Detective Don Collier at 562-570-7464.
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