Police looking for increasingly brazen serial robbers

Salt Lake County robbery detectives are concerned a pair of serial robbers may be getting more brazen with each additional crime.

The latest incident was Wednesday night when two men, one carrying a sawed-off shotgun and the other a large butcher knife, entered Bajio's, near 13400 S. Bangerter Highway. No customers were in the store, but several employees were sitting at a table, said Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Don Hutson.

One of the robbers held the knife to the throat of one of the employees, he said, and as the employee tried to push it away he cut a finger. The two men proceeded to take an undisclosed amount of cash and left.

"The biggest concern we have is the fact they immediately went after the employees and were extremely aggressive toward them," Hutson said. "It appears they are becoming more brazen. They're getting closer to using the weapons. That's a lot different than waving a knife in the air."

That robbery came just a day after two other food businesses were robbed by two men matching the same descriptions and carrying the same weapons.

On Tuesday night, a Mexican food business was robbed in West Valley City followed an hour later by a Dominos Pizza robbery in Riverton.

The men, both in their early 20s, wear bandanas over their faces during each robbery. One man is bald and the other wears a cap. One man also has tattoos of three dots under his left eye, Hutson said. The men spoke English during one robbery and Spanish at another, he said.

Anyone with information on the robbers can call police at 743-7000.

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