Card shopped robbed at gunpoint

An armed man escaped on foot after holding up a Newport Beach card

shop at closing time Friday night, Newport Beach Police said.

The man entered the Images Hallmark store on Irvine Avenue in Newport

Beach a little after 8 p.m. Friday as a store employee unlocked the front

door to let the remaining customers out, said Lt. John Freeman of the

Newport Beach Police Department.

The man pointed a handgun at the cashier, demanding the woman open the

cash register, Freeman said.

He removed an undisclosed amount of cash from the register, put the

money into a brown paper bag, and ran out the back door, police said.

Police describe the man as 6 feet 3 inches tall, 240 to 250 pounds,

brown eyes, clean-cut, 35 to 40 years old, wearing a black suede leather

coat, white T-shirt, blue jeans, black gloves and a black beanie.

Detectives are investigating the case, Freeman said.

Anyone with more information can call (949) 644-3717.