Police Searching for Palo Alto Safeway Armed Robbery Suspects

PALO ALTO, CA — Police are looking for three suspects in an armed robbery that happened at a Palo Alto Safeway store early Friday morning.

The Palo Alto Police Department dispatch center received a call at 12:41 a.m. Friday, reporting that a robbery was in progress at the Safeway, located at 2811 Middlefield Road.

According to a statement from the PAPD, just minutes earlier, three male suspects had entered the store, one of whom had a gun and ordered a male employee on the ground. Another suspect smashed through the glass door of the store pharmacy and stole an unknown amount of prescription drugs.

The two suspects, plus a third, then ran out of the store and escaped in a pickup truck, which was seen heading eastbound on Oregon Expressway.

No customers were in the store during the robbery. Four working employees were not injured.

The PAPD are describing the suspects as three Hispanic male adults in their 20s with medium builds. Surveillance video shows the suspect who held the gun wore a grey hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and red tennis shoes, according to the PAPD. The second suspect wore a yellow hooded sweatshirt with a Tommy Hilfiger logo, dark pants, and black shoes. The third suspect wore a red hooded jacket, grey pants, white sneakers, and is clean-shaven. The getaway car is described as a full-size red two-door pickup truck. It appeared to be an early 2000 model Ford or Chevrolet.

Sergeant Craig Lee of the PAPD tells Patch that the Safeway robbery is not related to a jewel and watch smash-and-grab theft that took place at the Palo Alto Bloomingdale's early Tuesday morning, which also involved three suspects.

Anyone with information is asked to call the PAPD 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413; text anonymous tips to 650-383-8984; or email anonymous tips to paloalto@tipnow.org.