Armed Robbers Hit Costa Mesa Gas Station
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COSTA MESA — A Costa Mesa gas station employee was pistol-whipped Saturday by two armed robbers who fled with cash and lottery tickets, police said.
The attendant, Julio Ospina, 54, suffered a cut to the forehead but was not seriously injured in the 5:30 a.m. attack at a gas station in the 700 block of West 19th St., said Costa Mesa Police Lt. Alan Kent.
Police said the two assailants, armed with what appeared to be semiautomatic weapons, forced Ospina into the cashier’s booth at gunpoint.
The suspects then fled in a newer model, dark green Jeep Cherokee, Kent said.
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