Man tries to rob senior citizens walking near Rose Bowl in Pasadena


PASADENA >> A man tried, but failed, to wrestle a fanny pack away from a woman in her 70s Saturday as she walked with her husband around the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, police said.
The woman suffered minor cuts to her arms during the crime but did not require hospitalization, Pasadena police Lt. Jesse Carrillo said
She and her husband, both Glendale residents, were walking around the Rose Bowl about 9:45 p.m. when a robber approached them at Rosemont Avenue and Arroyo Boulevard.
“He demanded the fanny pack and tugged at it,” the lieutenant said. The woman fell to the ground in the scuffle, but the would-be robber was unable to remove the fanny pack.
As the couple yelled for help, the failed robber ran away along Arroyo Boulevard and got into a car, Carrillo said.
Police described the suspect as a black man between 20 and 30, of thin build, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a dark complexion, wearing a black baseball cap, a black jacket and dark jeans. He was seen getting into a bronze, four-door older-model car similar to a Mercury Sable.
The attempted robbery of the senior citizen took place just over a month after another man, 87, was seriously injured during a robbery while walking near the Rose Bowl in the early-morning hours.
Three 19-year-old San Gabriel Valley men have been arrested in connection with the robbery and attack and are awaiting trial. A fourth suspect, a 19-year-old Rowland Heights woman, remains at large.

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