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":2,"featured_media":154883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,6756,74,1856,1857,1858,76,75,1855,21755],"class_list":["post-154882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-poway","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-celebrities","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-events","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-photos","tag-spa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}