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Englewood lawn care workers targeted in 20-minute armed robbery spree

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Police are searching for a suspect who robbed three lawn care workers at gunpoint in Englewood during a 20-minute spree on Monday morning.

Police are looking for a man who robbed three separate lawn care workers at gunpoint in a 20-minute span in Englewood Monday morning. In all attacks, the man demanded the workers' cell phones and wallets, most recently at 9:50 a.m. in the 5500 block of South Ashland Avenue, police said. The robber, wearing all black including a mask, then sped away in a car to the 5500 block of South Union Avenue where he robbed someone else at 9:47 a.m. The first heist occurred about 9:30 a.m. in the 5900…

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