Two men have been arrested after allegedly robbing a woman at gunpoint Thursday morning outside the Dimond Center Mall.
Robert Potts and Johnny Degrat II were arrested by police roughly five minutes after the uninjured victim gave police a detailed description of the two men and their vehicle, according to the Anchorage Police Department.
One of the men approached the 30-year-old robbery victim while she was sitting in her car in the Dimond Center parking lot around 10:30 a.m., demanding her purse and cellphone. The man fled the scene with another man in a sedan, but were quickly located by police near 15th Avenue and Gambell Street.
The investigation into the robbery is ongoing. The victim’s cellphone was recovered from the vehicle, but not her purse, according to police.
Both men were taken to the Anchorage Jail and held under a first-degree robbery charge. Bail has been set at $5,000 each.