A 22-year-old man suspected of two massage spa robberies in Poway has been arrested.<\/p>\n
Poway deputies responded at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday to Poway Spa in the 13000 block of Pomerado Road, near Ninth Street, after a woman reported that a masked man had entered the business, threatened her with a knife, demanded money and struck her in the face, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Minutes later, another robbery was reported at the Lavender Spa, about 2 1\/2 miles away in the 12000 block of Poway Road, near Sabre Springs Parkway. Sheriff’s officials said the victim gave a similar description of the man who was suspected in the first robbery.<\/p>\n
Investigators collected video footage from both businesses, and a nearby company’s camera system recorded the suspect’s green Dodge Challenger leaving the area.<\/p>\n
A sheriff’s detective recognized the car from a previous lewd act investigation involving a man fitting the same description, which allowed authorities to identify the suspect.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff’s office, license plate reader data confirmed the vehicle had been near both spas during the robberies<\/p>\n
The suspect, identified as Thomas Colden, was located at a Poway residence and taken into custody shortly before 7 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man suspected of two massage spa robberies in Poway has been arrested. Poway deputies responded at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":551534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,52406,3549,44636,44637,18711,36075,44635,7264,38917,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-551533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-poway","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-celebrities","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-events","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-photos","tag-sandiego","tag-spa","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115978371592640835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}