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Then, the robbers would suddenly turn on their victims, brandishing a handgun, threatening them with physical force and demanding they get in the car, police said.

During a brazen Valentine’s Day heist of an armored truck in Hawthorne, the robber kept his face covered.

Two men in luxury cars were targeted by robbers at the Fashion Island mall and one sustained minor injuries when he sped away, police said.

One of the robbers ordered her 80-year-old husband out of bed, pressed a gun into his back and demanded cash, checkbooks, credit cards and the couple’s PINs, she said.

He loved “the game of cops and robbers,” he recounted, and became an expert prevaricator.