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Berkeley Police say that two armed robberies a week apart may be connected.  

Sgt. Cary Kent said the description of two suspects who are believed to have robbed a man and a woman in a parked car Aug. 3 on Parkside Drive and The Uplands at gunpoint, fit the description of two suspects believed to have committed another armed robbery Aug. 10 at 1:22 a.m. on the 2500 block of Hillegas Avenue. 

Kent said that the suspects are both “scruffy-looking” white males in their 20s. One commits the robbery with a semi-automatic handgun while the other provides the getaway vehicle, he said. 

Kent said one suspect was described as being between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall, weighing around 180 pounds. He was reported to be wearing a black leather jacket during the first robbery, and a three-quarter length blue parka during the second. 

The driver’s description is sketchy. He was said to be driving a white, two-door sedan during the first robbery. The car used in the second robbery was described as a boxy, perhaps black, older American-make automobile, Kent said.