Two robberies reported in three days

East Tosa saw two armed robberies within a matter of days.

According to Wauwatosa police reports:

A masked robber carrying a sawed-off shotgun held up RadioShack, 6407 W. North Ave., at 8:25 p.m. Jan. 19.

An employee was organizing merchandise when the man walked in. As she turned to greet him, she noticed he was wearing a mask and had a weapon sticking out from his sleeve.

"Come with me, you know what this is," the robber said.

There were no customers in the store, but two employees were working. He motioned them to the cash register and told them to hurry. The workers filled a bag with cash, and the robber took it and took off running west along North Avenue.

In the other incident, a 19-year-old woman said she was held up at gunpoint at 6 p.m. Jan. 16 while she sat at a bus stop on the southwest corner of North Avenue and 60th Street.

As she waited for her bus, a man approached the bench from the north side of North Avenue, sat down and pointed a gun at her from his lap.

She said he told her to "give me everything you have."

The woman gave him a wallet containing $30 and an MP3 player valued at $200.