The manager of a sandwich shop stopped a burglary in the making Monday morning, frightening off the potential robber before he was able to steal anything. 

The employee walked inside the Subway located on Del Lago Boulevard at Via Rancho Parkway around 5:30 a.m. and spotted the man inside the store, Escondido police Sgt. Ryan Fien stated.

It seems the man walked inside the store after tearing off some panels located on the side of the roof and he was using a filing tool to break open the store’s safe, Fien reported.  

The robber had also detached the store’s alarm system, the sergeant stated.  

The man took off running out the back door when the manager walked in.

The employee said the man was white, around 6 feet tall, wearing a khaki colored fishing or hunting brand of hat. 

Police looked around the store with a dog but the man was not located.

An armed man wearing a surgical mask approached a teller at a bank in Caramel Valley Friday morning, but walked up to a teller at a Carmel Valley bank Friday morning, but took off empty-handed and without ordering money, police stated.

The man walked inside the Bank of America located on East Ocean Air Drive at Carmel Mountain Road at 10:55 a.m. approached the teller, who saw that he had a gun around his waist, reported San Diego police Officer Brad Ruff. The man scanned the bank and then calmly told the teller that he spotted a bank security guard.

The man then walked out the door and took off. He left in an older-model four-door silver Nissan Altima or Sentra that was parked in front of the bank, Ruff stated. The car did not have any license plates. 

He was last spotted headed south on East Ocean Air.

He was said to be a white or Asian male in his 60’s. He was wearing blue sunglasses, a blue jacket and black pants.

An armed man attempted to steal from a man inside his home located on Leucadia on Leucadia on Friday but he took off with nothing. 

The man entered an apartment at the Grandview Apartments complex located on Grandview Street near North Coast Highway 101 at 10 a.m. and disrupted a man who was laying on his couch watching tv, reported officials with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department. 

He pulled up his shirt to show the man that he has armed with a handgun and told him they could “do it the easy way or the hard way,” deputies stated.

The victim told the man he had cash stored in the kitchen and he walked over to the catch but ran out the back door, and the thief took off as well with nothing. 

The man was said to be black, in his 20’s, about 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 9 inches tall with black buzz-cut hair. He was dressed in a blue T-shirt with red writing and blue or black denim pants and had two diamond stud earrings in each ear. A few deputies along with a helicopter looked all throughout the area but could not locate the suspect.

Sheriff’s deputies took a man into custody after he was accused of being connected to a recent attempted robbery and car theft yesterday morning when they got a call telling them there was a suspicious man walking around and they discovered the suspect in a stolen car, authorities reported. 

Deputies were told to report to an unincorporated area by Escondido to oversee a situation in which there was a report of a man in an unfenced backyard working his way into doors around 6:40 a.m., sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Moreno stated.

They located the 22-year-old man sitting n a white car on Scandia Court right by Lendee Drive.

Deputies came to conclude that the car had been stolen from a security guard at the Escondido Village Mall located on East Valley Parkway around 3 a.m., Moreno reported. The victim did not appear to be armed, Escondido police reported.

A woman around the age of 30, successfully defended herself and her purse when two men attempted to take it from her yesterday in the parking lot of a supermarket, police reported.  

The woman pulled into the lot at Ralphs located on North Second Street near Madison Avenue around 7 p.m. She parked her car and was walking away to enter the store when two men approached her and tried to snag her purse. 

The force of their pull knocked the woman to the ground, but she was able to hold on to her purse until the men decided to let go and fled, El Cajon police Lt. Ron Smithson reported. The woman was not injured in the incident. 

Witnesses began to walk to the woman to help her out. They led police officials around the corner of some shops where the men were just about to leave in a red Nissan Altima. One of the men tried to run away but didn’t get far until police got a hold of him. The other man took off in the car.

According to Smithson, a 19-year-old man of Alpine was taken into custody under suspicion of attempted robbery. Police were still searching for the other man involved last night.