Shreveport Police Dept.

Date: Nov 17, 2008

Phone: 318/525-5066 Fax: 318/673-6933

Contact: Jim Taliaferro, Public Information Officer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Best Value Motel robbery

The Shreveport Police Department needs the public's help in finding two men who robbed a man at gun point in a local Motel.

On November the 15th shortly before midnight at the Best Value Motel in the 4900 block of Monkhouse Dr. A motel patron was watching TV in his hotel room when two black men entered his room. One of the suspects pulled a chrome semi-automatic handgun on the individual while the second man began searching the room.

The suspects fled the scene with a lap top computer, 3 cell phones and an undetermined amount of cash.

Suspect one is described as a Black Male in his late 20's approximately 6' tall weighing 200 pounds. he was wearing a jacket with multiply patches and was wearing a white skull cap.

Suspect two is described as a Black Male in his late 20's to early 30's approximately 5'9" tall wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.

Both suspects left the scene in a 1990's Pontiac Grand AM, with a Brown or Burgundy convertible top car.

If anyone has information on this crime they are asked to call the Tactical Robbery Unit at 673-6955 or Crime Stoppers at 673-7373.

Information can be left with Crime Stoppers at 673-7373 or by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimestoppersshreveportcaddo.com.

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