Video: Frazier Park Market Robbed at Gunpoint-SEE VIDEO

  • An armed robber holds a pistol in his right hand while ordering the cashier to leave the cash drawer open. The suspect fled on foot toward the Monterey Trail bridge. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's substation at 661-245-3440.

    An armed robber holds a pistol in his right hand while ordering the cashier to leave the cash drawer open. The suspect fled on foot toward the Monterey Trail bridge. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's substation at 661-245-3440.

A 30 to 40 year old male robs Frazier Park Market at gunpoint at approximately 6:05 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.

DO  YOU RECOGNIZE THIS PERSON? (Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, 12:28 p.m.)—Watch the video and if you recognize anything about the robber, please contact Kern County Sheriff’s Department at 661-245-3440.

UPDATE–FRAZIER PARK (Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, 8:07 a.m.)—In an interview with Frazier Park Market manager this morning, Rick Johnson said just seeing the surveillance pictures of the robbery "gives me the chills. It definitely changes you…your heart starts beating fast…luckily [the cashier] did the right thing so nobody got hurt."

The Frazier Park Market has been operating for over 50 years.

"It is all a new thing for us," Johnson continued. "We’ve never been robbed before (besides a break-in)…especially someone with a gun. We don’t know whether it was somebody local or from out of town. We are making changes we need to make here for our workers, you want to make sure everybody is safe.

"Maybe we have to think about winter hours, obviously the guy was waiting for it to get slow…That is an option we have to look at, close up maybe at 6 p.m. before it is so dark. But we don’t want to hurt our customer base, or inconvenience people…We’ll put in extra security cameras and take extra precautions…."

Johnson said that the relaxed sense of our rural town slips more toward the vigilance of living in a big city when The Mountain Enterprise asked what it is like coming into the store the day after something like that has happened.

"You look around. You always have to take precautions when you drive in. It makes you think about who is walking beside you, behind you," Johnson said.

Anyone with information on this event is asked to contact law enforcement at 245-3440.

—Patric Hedlund Editor@MountainEnterprise.com (245-3794)

See below for additional details, posted since Wednesday night. We will continue posting updates as soon as facts are available.

UPDATE-FRAZIER PARK (Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, 12:14 a.m.)The Mountain Enterprise has now learned that the approximate age of the man who stole cash at gunpoint from Frazier Park Market Wednesday, Jan. 6 is "late 30s, early 40s" according to Deputy Steve Hanson. He is 5′ 5" to 5′ 9" of slim build with a shaved head, wearing a gray or silver fleece shirt and hood. See the rest of his description and an account of the robbery below.

UPDATE-FRAZIER PARK (Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, 12:09 a.m.)—A Kern County Sheriff’s press release has just been issued about a robbery at gunpoint at Frazier Park Market on Wednesday, Jan. 6:  At approximately 6:05 pm, a white male entered the Frazier Park Market, at 632 Laguna Trail, Frazier Park, CA, picked up a couple of items and placed them on the counter. When the clerk opened the register to give the suspect his change, the suspect brandished a black semi-automatic handgun with a chrome barrel.

The suspect then grabbed the money out of the register and fled from the store on foot. At the time of the robbery, the suspect was wearing a fake black beard, mustache and wig. The suspect was last seen south of Don’s Liquor near the bridge.

The suspect was seen removing his disguise near the bridge and is described as a white male, 5’5” to 5’9”, slim build, shaved head, wearing a gray or silver fleece shirt with a hood.

The loss was an undetermined amount of cash. Anyone with information should contact the Frazier Park Substation at 661-245-3440.

FRAZIER PARK (Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2009, 8:37 p.m.)—Reports have been received that a thief approached a cashier in Frazier Park Market this evening between 6:45 p.m. and 7 p.m., brandished a gun and exited with money from the cash register. Sheriffs responded to investigate. No apprehension has been reported. More facts will be added to this report as available.

Anyone with information on this event is asked to contact law enforcement at 245-3440.

—Patric Hedlund Editor@MountainEnterprise.com (245-3794)

This is part of the January 08, 2010 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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