Man Points Gun At Home Depot Cashier, Leaves With Power Tools

SUGAR LAND, TX -- Sugar Land police are looking for a gunman who took a cart-load of merchandise from Home Depot on June 25 at gunpoint.

Police were called at 11:47 a.m. after employees said a man walked out of the store through the gardening area with power tools in a shopping cart.

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One of the employees said the man pointed a handgun at a cashier and told her to remain quiet before leaving in a black Dodge Durango that was circling the parking lot.

Police believe the same man committed a similar crime at another Home Depot in Houston four hours earlier.

Detectives obtained surveillance video from the robbery in Sugar Land that shows the gunman exiting the Dodge Durango, walking through the store and pointing a handgun at an employee while casually leaving the store.

Anyone with information should call the Sugar Land Police Department at (281) 275-2540 or Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at (281) 342-TIPS (8477).

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