Backroom Bandit Strikes Another Beauty Shop

An armed robber who forces his victims into the backroom of their businesses struck a salon – again.

It happened at , a small, independent beauty salon at 26451 Ynez Road around 7 p.m. Friday, according to sheriff’s Sgt. Ken Southern.

The suspect went into the salon, pulled out a black handgun and forced several employees and customers into the backroom. Then he took some cash from the register and some things from some victims’ purses and ran away, the sergeant stated in a report.

Nobody was hurt and no other suspects were seen in the area. Victims described the suspect as a Hispanic man in his late twenties to mid-thirties wearing a black hooded sweater, a white T-shirt and dark pants.

A man matching this description and using the same routine struck several shops in Murrieta since December, according to Murrieta Police Department officials.

This is at least the third shop related to beauty he struck since February. He the at 29910 Murrieta Hot Springs at 6 p.m. February 12 and , a beauty supply shop at 39825 Alta Murrieta Dr. around 6 p.m. March 2.

He likely also robbed a sandwich shop at 40315 Winchester Road around 6 p.m. the day after he robbed Supercuts. Then he a at 27890 Clinton Keith Road around 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27. He robbed the same place around 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 20, too, according to police and sheriff’s officials.

Two suspects, Alfonso Daniel Hall, 21, and Josue Silva, 20, March 17 on suspicion of robbing numerous businesses. Investigators explored whether one of them may be the backroom bandit, but were in jail when Bed Headz was robbed.

All of the robberies in Temecula and Murrieta were near the I-215 and around 6 p.m. The Bed Headz robbery was the latest yet, though the time changed since the suspect last struck, and the sun sets later.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department asked anybody with information about these crimes to call Investigator Jeff Fisher at the Southwest Station Detective Bureau at 951-696-3000.