DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines tobacco shop told Local 5 a robber has stolen over $1,000 in cash and over $2,000 in inventory over the past three days.
On Sunday, Des Moines police confirmed on X account that an armed robber fled on foot from Iowa Clouds Tobacco off Hubbell Avenue, adding no physical injuries were reported.
"This guy keeps on doing it," manager Aman Singh explained. "He was doing small stuff like one candy, one chip bag or something. Then, now from last three days, he started doing big. Taking a lot of vapes, and cash."
In surveillance footage provided by the shop to Local 5, a man walks into the store, goes behind the counter and later starts bagging up hundreds of dollars of cash.
"He came in and he was tucking his hands in his pajamas and asking... that he has a weapon," Singh said the robber had told his employee on Sunday during an armed robbery. "He is telling her: 'You wanna live or die?' and "I will kill you, if you don't do this and that.'"
Singh added that he told his employees if this person keeps coming back to not engage, because he said his employees' lives and safety are what's most important.
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