Paso Robles Walmart robbed

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• Images of Walmart robbery suspect released

  Images of Walmart robbery suspect released

  Images of the suspect in a New Year’s Eve robbery of a Walmart in Paso Robles were captured by a surveillance camera at the store entrance, according to the Paso Robles Police Department.

  The middle-aged man seen in the security footage used a note to rob the Walmart store about 7:30 Saturday night.

  Police say the man was in his 40s, about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighed about 180 pounds.

• Two burglary suspects arrested at Walmart in Paso Robles

  Two burglary suspects arrested at Walmart in Paso Robles

  Two Templeton residents suspected of burglaries in the North County were arrested Friday afternoon at Walmart in Paso Robles.

  Ricky Andrew Soto, 22, and Tasha Rose Gambel, 23, were taken into custody at the store’s parking lot about 2 p.m.

  Soto and Gambel were arrested after a Sheriff’s Office deputy received a tip from Walmart security agents that the man and women were suspected of committing numerous North County heists, including at Walmart.

• Robber takes envelope of cash from person in Paso Robles, police say

  Robber takes envelope of cash from person in Paso Robles, police say

  The Paso Robles Police Department is searching for a man who reportedly stole an envelope of cash from a person at Sixth and Park streets today, according to a report from the department’s alert service, Nixle.com.

  Police received a report that a robbery occurred at about 12:40 p.m. today after a “transient-looking white male” wearing a dirty white sweater and dark-blue jeans approached a person asking for money.

  The robber then “pushed the victim in the chest and took an envelope containing a large amount of cash,” police said in the alert. Details such as the amount of money taken and the exact location of the robbery weren’t immediately available.

• Man was beaten before his throat was cut, Paso Robles police say

  Man was beaten before his throat was cut, Paso Robles police say

  Inside a hotel room in Paso Robles last summer, police found a dead man, lying face down on a bed, in a pool of blood. His throat was slashed, his chest and stomach were cut, and the left side of his face was crushed.

  A conspiracy to beat the man and take his drugs apparently turned deadly when two members of a group returned after an assault on him and one of them allegedly sliced the man’s throat.

  Four people suspected of the crime allegedly talked on the night of the attack about how the victim — 55-year-old Robert Kenichi Uyeno — had reportedly locked women up in his bedroom and raped them.

• There are ways to get a Walmart

  There are ways to get a Walmart

  Iggy and Cal are the two ghosts who haunt the Paso Robles Library/City Hall building. They bubbled up with the steaming sulfur water during the 2003 earthquake, which reawakened the long-dormant hot spring in the building’s parking lot.

  Iggy is the ghost of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the concert pianist who was like a rock star in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1914, he found relief for his overworked arms and hands in Paso Robles’ hot springs and mud baths. Cal was a California grizzly bear, who in earlier days eased his arthritis in the hot spring.

  The other night they sat in the darkened library discussing the proposed Walmart store in Atascadero. Cal said, “It’ll draw swarms of shoppers like a bottlebrush bush draws bees.”