McDonalds employees robbed at gunpoint Two employees...

McDonalds employees robbed at gunpoint

Two employees at a local McDonalds were tied up and robbed at

gunpoint just after midnight Sunday.

The two men, George Abarca, 22, and Enrique Torres, 32, are

Huntington Beach residents.

There were no injuries aside from complaints by Abarca of soreness

to the chest, where he had been struck by one of the robbers.

The employees were tied up in a locker room by at least two, and

possibly four, suspects, while the robbers forced open a safe with an

unknown power tool and removed an undisclosed amount of cash,

Huntington Beach Police Lt. Bruce Kelly said.

One was armed with a handgun.

Abarca and Torres were only able to describe one suspect, who they

said was a male Latino, 5-foot-8 and wearing brown jeans and white

T-shirt, with a nylon stocking over his face.

No vehicles were seen, and no shots were fired, Kelly said.

It took the two employees about 30 minutes to free them after the

robbers fled, Kelly said.

Police were unable to locate any suspects because of the time that

had elapsed while Torres and Abarca struggled to free themselves.

Man stabbed in Downtown Huntington Beach

A Whittier man was stabbed in the lower back after leaving a

bachelor party in Downtown Huntington Beach Saturday.

The stabbing occurred after Michael Lee Owens became separated

from a group of friends after exiting a bus at the corner of 5th

Street and Walnut Avenue.

Huntington Beach residents found Owens staggering eastbound down

Walnut Avenue at 10:35 p.m. He was rushed by paramedics to the

Western Medical Center in Anaheim and released soon after.

“He didn’t know who stabbed him and he couldn’t give any

information,” Huntington Beach Police Sgt. Gary Meza said.

Officers did find a knife in the area, but they don’t know if it

was related to the stabbing, Meza said.

Police have no leads.

“This is a pretty serious crime,” Meza said. “We’ll see if we can

figure out who did it and why.”

Nine arrested at Saturday’s DUI checkpoint

Nine people were arrested for drunk driving at a sobriety

checkpoint held at Pacific Coast Highway and Huntington Street on

Saturday.

While the checkpoint was active, from 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., more

than 2,300 cars went through, and 500 were randomly selected.

Of the 500 motorists stopped, nine were arrested, eight were

issued citations for being unlicensed, and one was written up for

driving with a suspended license. Twelve cars were impounded.

“It goes up and down, but this is average,” Huntington Beach

Police Sgt. Gary Meza said.

This is one of four sobriety checkpoints the city is required to

operate.