SAN DIEGO – A man who allegedly held up a Mission FCU branch Tuesday was arrested at a nearby pizzeria a short time later.
Officers searched the area with help from a sheriff’s helicopter crew, finding a man matching the description of the robber inside Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza.
Witnesses to the holdup were taken to the restaurant and identified the detainee, 44-year-old Robert William Pickens of San Diego, as the robber.
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