PASADENA — A man robbed a check cashing business at gunpoint Friday in an unincorporated county area near Pasadena, authorities said.
The crime occurred about noon at Check Into Cash, 3683 E. Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Mark Glatt said.
The robber, described as a white man wearing a navy blue hooded sweat shirt and tan cargo shorts, entered the business with a small-caliber handgun, the lieutenant said.
After ordering an employee to the ground, he helped himself to about $1,500 from the cash registers, Glatt said.
A man was briefly detained in the area, but was determined not to be the robber, he said.
It was not known if a getaway car was involved.