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Two Robbers Nabbed 

Police arrested two young men in connection with an armed robbery Thursday afternoon at Black & White Liquors at the corner of Adeline Street and Shattuck Avenue. 

According to the store clerk, who refused to give his name, three men entered the store, two brandishing guns, while the third made off with two 12-packs of beer. They raced out without demanding money, one jumping into a white Cadillac with someone waiting in the driver’s seat, the others running south with the beer down Adeline.  

Police converged on the car at Shattuck and Ashby avenues, arresting both driver and passenger, Gabriel Gutierrez, 20, and Emanuel Martinez, 18 , both of Berkeley. The other pair remains at large, police said. 

Senior Kidnapped 

A 76-year-old Berkeley resident was kidnapped at knifepoint in Downtown Berkeley Monday evening and forced to remove money from an ATM machine. Police said it was the third kidnapping in the past three months. 

The woman parked her car at Addison and Oxfords streets about 7:20 p.m., and she was getting out when a man ordered her into the passenger seat and drove her to an ATM machine at the corner of Ashby and Telegraph avenues, before leaving her unharmed in the car at Ashby Bart Station. 

Police are looking for any possible connections between this incident and the kidnapping and robbery of an elderly man in October and the kidnapping sexual assault of a woman in November, said BPD spokesperson Kevin Schofield.  

Give Me The Damn Wallet 

A mugger interrupted NFL star Keyshawn Johnson’s cell phone chat outside a South Berkeley barber shop Wednesday afternoon. 

The two-time All-Pro Wide Receiver, a frequent patron of Johnson’s House of Styles (no known relation) on the 2900 block of Sacramento Street, had stepped outside at 3:29 p.m. to handle a call, police said, when two men walked up, one carrying either a rifle or a shotgun.  

The men grabbed cash and jewelry and during the incident Johnson backed into the barber shop’s window pane, knocking it out of place. The star was unhurt and the muggers fled in a light blue ‘70s American-made car, police spokesperson Kevin Schofield said.