January 6, 2012 (La Mesa) – In a brazen robbery, a thief struggled with a female customer seated at a table outside a Starbucks at 5020 Baltimore Drive, stealing her laptop and purse at 5:45 p.m. yesterday.

The suspect, a Hispanic man in his mid-20s wearing a red plaid shirt and jeans, got into the passenger side of a waiting white 4-door vehicle driven by a second male.  The two suspects sped away southbound on Baltimore Drive.