The man suspected of being the getaway driver in the robberies of customers at a Fairfax district restaurant was in custody Thursday.
The robberies occurred about 4:55 p.m. Tuesday at Le Créme Cafe in the 7300 block of Melrose Avenue, near La Brea Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
No injuries were reported, according to the LAPD.
Security video shows the suspects in hoodies, one armed with a gun, as they approached the diners and took various items from them, including a purse, a watch and a cellphone. No suspect descriptions were available.
“I’ve been here for nine years,” the restaurant owner, identified as Stoli, told KTLA5. “For the last, let’s say, half a year, I never saw so much crime on this street.
“A lot of visitors and tourists (are) gonna stop coming here. When they stop coming here, more and more merchants and business owners … they’re gonna go to somewhere safer, and this street’s gonna die.”
LAPD Robbery Homicide Division detectives identified a vehicle allegedly used in the robbery, located it in Pasadena on Wednesday and arrested the driver, 23-year-old Quioness Wilson, according to an LAPD statement.
Detectives suspect Wilson of being the getaway driver in the robbery. He was interviewed, then booked into the LAPD Metropolitan Division Jail on suspicion of robbery, with bail set at $350,000.
The two other men remain outstanding, and no suspect descriptions were provided.
Anyone with information on the case was urged to call 877-LAPD-247.