PASADENA — Three men used a handgun to rob a gardener of a leaf blower Saturday, police said.
The crime occurred about 6:15 p.m. in the 400 block of Tamarac Drive, Pasadena police Lt. Pete Hettema said.
A gardener — a 24-year-old La Puente man — was working in a back yard when he heard a noise coming from his truck parked out front, the lieutenant said.
He found a man stealing an Echo-brand leaf blower from his truck and gave chase, he said.
The fleeing thief and gardener reached a light gray Jeep Cherokee with a waiting driver when a third suspect standing near the Jeep pointed a handgun at the gardener, Hettema said. The gunman and the man with the leaf blower then jumped into the Jeep and fled.
The robber who snatched the leaf blower was described as a Latino man, about 27 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 260 pounds, with shoulder-length black hair, Hettema said. He wore a white T-shirt and Levis jeans.
The gunman was a Latino man between 25 and 30, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 200 pounds, with a shaved head, mustache and goatee, police said.
No description of the driver was available.