Liquor store robber strikes again

Police are looking for a man who got away with $125 Wednesday night

after robbing Baycourt Liquor Store on Jamboree Road in Newport Beach.

Authorities believe the robber is the same man suspected in a series

of heists, including a Sept. 8 holdup at a Costa Mesa liquor store.

On Wednesday, the man approached the cashier after picking up a few

items from the store, demanding cash and threatening him with a

blue-steel semiautomatic pistol, said Sgt. Mike McDermott of the Newport

Beach Police Department. The man then took all the money in the register

and escaped in a black, four-door Dodge.

Police described the man as a white male, 25 to 30 years old, about 6

feet tall and 175 pounds with a beard and mustache. He was wearing a

green, long-sleeved sweater, dark pants and a dark blue baseball cap at

the time of the robbery.

Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach police officers are

working together to track down the suspect, who has hit liquor stores in

all three cities in the last few weeks.