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Teen busted in Tuesday drug store robbery
Posted: 07.20.2011 at 1:09 PM
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Ramon Valdez  / Courtesy: Pueblo County Sheriff's Office
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PUEBLO COUNTY, COLO. -- Fewer than 24 hours after Pueblo County Sheriff's deputies began investigating a drug store robbery in the eastern part of the county, they arrested a teenager for stealing narcotics.

Deputies obtained a warrant for the arrest of 19-year-old Ramon Valdez after a deputy recognized his face in the store's surveillance video. They arrested Valdez in the 27000 block of Woburn Abbey.

The robbery happened.at a drug store in the 1900 block of Santa Fe Drive in eastern Pueblo County.  According to witnesses, Valdez had a gun and demanded narcotics. 

Valdez has had prior run-ins with law enforcement and is being held on an aggravated robbery of controlled substances charge. His bond is $250,000.

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