For the second time in nearly as many days, a Woodland person was robbed at knifepoint.
According to Woodland Police Sgt. Jason Brooks, the second robbery occurred around 1:10 p.m., Wednesday at the Autumn Run Apartments, 1180 Matmor Road.
Brooks reported that when officers arrived on the scene they found 24-year-old Bellflower resident Aaron Pukini, who told them that he was sitting in his vehicle when a man approached, reached through the open driver's window and took Pukini's wallet off his lap and then walked away.
"Pukini got out of his car and began following the suspect, who then turned around and brandished a black handled folding knife, telling Pukini to back away," Brooks reported. "Pukini did so and then called 911 while the suspect fled on foot in a southwesterly direction through the complex."
Pukini's wallet was later located within the apartment complex by another person.
An undisclosed amount of money was missing from the wallet.
Pukini described the suspect as being a Latino man in his early 20s, standing around 5-feet, 6-inches tall, and weighing around 280 pounds. The suspect had a heavy build and was wearing a red T-shirt and black gym shorts. He also had a tattoo on his left inner arm that ran from his wrist to his elbow. The tattoo was described as a large shaded unknown name (letters) in cursive writing.
The knife blade was described as being around 4-inches long.
Pukini was uninjured during the attack.
Around 10 a.m., Monday, a 17-year-old boy was attacked in the 700 block of Beamer Street by two people, one of whom brandished a pocket knife. The two suspects demanded the teen's possessions, which he gave them. The exact nature of what he turned over was not reported.
The first suspect with the knife was described as a light-skinned male Latino in his early 20s wearing a black shirt, a black baseball hat with a White-Sox logo on it. His face was covered by a bandana.
The victim was unable to describe the second suspect other being a male.
The teen was also not hurt during the robbery.