Update: Wichita police have arrested two men they believe robbed two employees of a S. Wichita Family Video store. They were arrested arrested after police say they snatched a purse from a woman in the parking lot of the Wal Mart on E. Kellogg.
Police say the woman was putting her bags in the car when someone came up and took her purse from the cart and ran. Eyewitnesses took note of the tag number on the car the man and another man got away in.
Police ran the tag and came up with an address...they then had officers waiting for the suspects when they got to the house.
One of them tried to run, but didn't get far. Both were arrested.
Police say they recovered property from the woman at Wal Mart as well as evidence that the 25 and 26-year-old suspects were involved in the Family Video robbery from Monday.
Police also recovered the shotguns used in the Family Video robbery.
Both men were booked into jail on both charges.
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Two men armed with shotguns hold up two workers at a S. Wichita Family Video store. It happened around 12:30 Monday morning in the 1700 block of S. Hillside.
Police tell us an 18-year-old woman and a co-worker were leaving with the night deposit. While they were in the parking lot, a gold Buick LeSabre pulled in. The two men in the car had shotguns...and demanded money from them.
One of the men got out of the car and took money, including the bank bag, from the workers. The suspects also demanded the keys to their car. The victims gave the robbers their keys and the robbers took off.
They did not take the car.
The robber who got out of the car is described as a white male in his early 20s, 5'6" tall and thin build. He was wearing a black and blue jacket, blue jeans and a dark bandana.
The victims didn't get a good look at the robber who stayed in the car, they only say that he was larger and wearing a white bandana on his face.
No one was hurt.
