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Crime log: Information sought on 4 robberies

Herald-Sun, Nov 28, 2006 : 9:33 pm ET

DURHAM -- Police are asking for information about four robberies that occurred within six hours of each other Monday night and early Tuesday. The request for information came just one day after police announced they were investigating at least seven robberies involving apartment complexes that occurred between Wednesday and Friday of last week.

Investigators are not sure if the latest set of robberies were committed by the same group of people, police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said Tuesday. Most of the victims were Hispanic, she said.

Police received only vague descriptions of the suspects, Michael said. They were reportedly black males in their late teens or 20s usually wearing bandanas or scarves to cover their faces.

The following robberies occurred late Monday and early Tuesday:

-- 1900 block of Taylor Street, 7:17 p.m. Monday. Two men driving on Taylor Street were stopped by three men standing in the road. Two of the men approached the victims' vehicle and pulled out guns. They took a wallet and a necklace from the victims and fired seven shots into the vehicle. There were no injuries.

-- The Oaks at Northgate, 2112 Broad St., 9:26 p.m. Monday. A man was sitting on the stairs near his apartment when three men armed with guns approached him and took his wallet and a cell phone. They pistol-whipped the victim before fleeing in a white sedan.

-- Duke Court Apartments, 1611 Duke University Road, 9:35 p.m. Monday. Three males (one armed with a gun and one armed with a stick) entered an unlocked apartment and grabbed a male victim. The victim was pistol-whipped and shot in the arm after he told the suspects he had no money.

-- 1900 block of Taylor Street, 12:47 a.m. Tuesday. A man was driving with a woman acquaintance when she told him to stop in the 1900 block of Taylor Street. A man armed with a gun approached the car and the woman told the suspect to take the victim's money.

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* Some more sociology. An economist would probably find that crime is one of Durham's largest industries.