GameStop robbed of four PS3s at gunpoint
Just hours before the release of PlayStation3, two armed men robbed an Elk Grove video game store, and made off with four of the game consoles, police said.
The two armed hooded gunmen walked into the GameStop store at 7717 Laguna Boulevard at about 10:20 a.m. Thursday and demanded employees turn over the gaming systems, according to Elk Grove Police Department spokesman Chris Trim. Trim said the robbers took four of the consoles and four XBox 360 systems before making their escape.
Trim said one of the robbers is described as an Hispanic man, 6 feet 3 inches tall, and wearing black clothing, while the other is a dark-skinned man, six feet tall also wearing black clothing with a hood. Other surrounding stores selling the popular console were contacted about Thursday’s robbery and warned to keep an eye out for anything suspicious, Trim said.
The PlayStation 3 consoles, which retail for more than $600 each, are already among of the most sought-after items this holiday season. Plagued with production problems, worldwide supplies of the system are short, with only 400,000 PS3 machines available for U.S. buyers this week and only 1 million expected by year’s end (which is very doubtful). - News10.net
November 24th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
[...] Last Friday I reported on the story that a GameStop in California was robbed of four PS3s and Xbox 360s, but today comes a twist in the story. Here’s the article, but you need to be a subscriber to view it, so here’s a copy of it: Two employees are facing criminal charges following the reported theft of four coveted PlayStation 3 game consoles last week from an Elk Grove business, police said Wednesday. [...]