Police are looking for two men who held up a Redlands liquor store at gunpoint and also escaped with the store owner’s gun Saturday night.

A witness called police and reported the robbery in progress, as two masked men held up the clerk at the Rancho Liquor Market at the intersection of Colton Avenue and Texas Street at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1.

As one of the robbers held the clerk at gunpoint, the other jumped over the counter and emptied the register. The robber also found a loaded semi-automatic handgun and took it along with DVDs and cigarettes.

The robbers jumped over a wall north of the business and escaped into a residential neighborhood. Police set up a perimeter and called in a canine unit from the San Bernardino Police Department but were unable to locate the suspects.

The robbers are described as black males, wearing dark hooded sweatshirts and dark pants. At least one wore a blue bandana across his face. The other carried a black backpack and wore a sweatshirt with white writing on the front and down the right arm. Both men wore gloves.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Redlands Police Dispatch at (909) 798-7681.

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# posted by Redlands Police Information @ 6:55 PM