Crime & Safety
Subway Restaurant, Loan Store Robbed, Cops Say
The Subway restaurant near Louis Joliet Mall and the USA Loans store were held up by different people just three hours apart, Joliet police said.
The Subway restaurant on Plainfield Road, near the Louis Joliet Mall, and a loan store on Larkin Avenue were robbed Tuesday night in unrelated incidents, Joliet Police Lt. Brian Dupuis said.
The first holdup occurred at about 6 p.m. at USA Loans, 292 S. Larkin Ave., near the intersection of McDonough Street.
Two Hispanic men, one of whom displayed a weapon, demanded that the lone male employee open his cash drawer and give them the money, Dupuis said. The pair then ran southbound from the building, he said.
They are described as having short black hair and wearing black clothing, he said. One was about 6 feet tall and 220 pounds and the other about 5-foot-six and 180 pounds, Dupuis said.
The amount of money taken and the type of weapon used were not disclosed by Dupuis.
The second robbery took place shortly before 9 p.m. as the lone male employee at the 2892 Plainfield Road Subway store was getting ready to close, Dupuis said.
A lone black man entered the store and demanded the employee give him the money from the register, he said. The suspect then fled into a waiting small black car, he said.
No other details on the robber were available, and Dupuis would not release the amount of money taken.
Dupuis asks that anyone knowing anything about either incident call the Joliet Police Department's investigations unit at 815-724-3020 or Will County Crime Stoppers at 800-323-6734.
Two Hispanic men, one of whom displayed a weapon, demanded that the lone male employee open his cash drawer and give them the money, Dupuis said. The pair then ran southbound from the building, he said.
They are described as having short black hair and wearing black clothing, he said. One was about 6 feet tall and 220 pounds and the other about 5-foot-six and 180 pounds, Dupuis said.
The amount of money taken and the type of weapon used were not disclosed by Dupuis.
The second robbery took place shortly before 9 p.m. as the lone male employee at the 2892 Plainfield Road Subway store was getting ready to close, Dupuis said.
A lone black man entered the store and demanded the employee give him the money from the register, he said. The suspect then fled into a waiting small black car, he said.
No other details on the robber were available, and Dupuis would not release the amount of money taken.
Dupuis asks that anyone knowing anything about either incident call the Joliet Police Department's investigations unit at 815-724-3020 or Will County Crime Stoppers at 800-323-6734.
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