Police are looking for a robbery suspect who
walked into the Carson City Gottschalks hair salon and made
off with the day's receipts.
The suspect is described as a white male adult, 6
feet, 2 inches tall, with short blond hair. He was
wearing a blue windbreaker and dark-colored jeans
and carried a black bag, said Sgt. Wade Penegor
of the Carson City Sheriff's Department.
Penegor said the robber entered through the south
doors of the department store and confronted a
clerk, who had just put an undisclosed amount of cash and checks into a tan, canvas cash
deposit bag with a plastic see-through sleeve on
one side.
"The deposit bag was in plain view, and the
suspect doesn't say anything, snatches the bag,
and runs out the south doors," Penegor said.
When the clerk followed, the suspect turned to
him and said, "Back off," motioning with the black
bag as though he had a weapon, Penegor said.
The clerk told police the man got into a faded,
grayish-blue, 1980s-model, four-door car and drove east,
exiting the parking lot onto Stewart Street.
There was no license plate on the front of the
vehicle, and the rear plate had a Nevada sunset
design, Penegor said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the
Sheriff's Department at 887-2020.
