Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 | 3:48 p.m.
Robbery turns into stand-off
KSNV coverage of SuperPawn robbery, Jan. 7, 2012.
Dwayne Jones
Israel Elder
Sun archives
- 2 men arrested after standoff with North Las Vegas Police (Jan. 6, 2012)
Police have identified two men arrested for their involvement in a botched pawn shop robbery that led to an armed standoff in a North Las Vegas neighborhood Friday afternoon.
Dwayne Jones, 26, and Israel Elder, 21, were arrested Friday at a house on the 2100 block of Lawry Avenue after North Las Vegas police followed them there from the scene of a robbery, a police statement said.
Police initially responded to a robbery in progress at the Super Pawn, 1611 N. Las Vegas Boulevard, around noon Friday.
According to police, the two men entered the shop armed with handguns and held the clerks at gunpoint, demanding money from the cash register.
The two men took an undisclosed amount of cash and other items from the store before fleeing in a vehicle, police said.
Officers arriving at the scene pursued the men to the North Las Vegas home where the SWAT team was called in to help in the standoff.
After about an hour and a half, the two men surrendered and were arrested on one count each of conspiracy to commit robbery with a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon and burglary with a deadly weapon, police said.
Jones and Elder are being held in the North Las Vegas Detention Center on $80,000 bail each.
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