Klutzy robber clues in cops

YOUNGSTOWN

One of two city police detectives investigating six armed robberies within three weeks in October 2013 said in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Friday they were able to link the robberies because of their similarities — including the fact that one of the robbers was a klutz.

Detective Sgt. Mike Lambert told jurors in front of Judge Lou D’Apolito in the aggravated robbery trial of 20-year-old Joseph Mascarella that in one of the robberies, someone ran out and lost a shoe. In another robbery, one of the robbers dropped the bag used to carry the money. And in the last robbery, Oct. 18, 2013, at a Subway restaurant on East Midlothian Boulevard, one of the robbers ran into the store and tripped “violently.”

“We got this clumsy guy committing all three of these robberies,” Lambert said.

There were other similiarities detectives were able to home in on as well, Lambert said.

Read what those are in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.