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Police looking for man who robbed business in a CCDC shirt

Updated August 16, 2017 - 11:21 pm

Las Vegas police are looking for a man who they say robbed a business Tuesday while wearing a Clark County Detention Center shirt.

At about 6:20 a.m., an armed man entered a west valley retail business on the 5000 block of West Charleston Boulevard, near South Decatur Boulevard, the Metropolitan Police Department said.

The man, wearing a shirt that read “CCDC,” robbed the store’s employees by making threats with a shotgun, Metro said.

Police describe the man as in his 20s, Hispanic, 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 140 to 160 pounds, police said.

Anyone with information may call Metro’s robbery section at 702-828-3591 or Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555.

Contact Rachel Hershkovitz at rhershkovitz@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @rzhershkovitz on Twitter.

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