Opinion ID: 2387024
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Heading: Burglary and Robbery at Sav-on Drugstore

Text: On March 13, 1994, Dean Bugbee was working as a supervisor at a Sav-on drugstore in the City of Orange. Bugbee testified that he was counting currency in the store's safe at approximately 10:50 p.m. when defendant approached the safe, stated it's time for a till audit, and held a gun over the door of the safe. Bugbee stood up and faced defendant, with a distance of approximately two feet between them. According to Bugbee, defendant removed between $2,000 and $3,000 from the safe, placed it in his pocket, and exited from the store. Bugbee confirmed that he described defendant to law enforcement officials as a White male, 32 to 38 years of age, approximately five feet eight inches tall, and approximately 210 pounds in weight, with dark brown hair. Bugbee recalled that defendant was wearing sunglasses, light blue jeans, a dark blue zip-up sweat jacket with a hood, and a baseball cap. The hood was over defendant's head when he entered the store, and Bugbee could not discern whether the hair he saw was natural or a wig. He confirmed at trial that defendant's weapon had a chrome surface, and that he described it at the time of the events as possibly a .45 semiautomatic pistol. On June 16, 1994, Bugbee met with representatives of the Orange Police Department, who showed him photographs of six individuals. Bugbee confirmed he told the police that number three looks the closest by the shape of his face. If he was to put dark glasses on I would say it was him. He acknowledged that, unlike the person who robbed him, the individual in the third photograph had a beard and mustache, but confirmed that he felt this was the person. [2]