Wednesday, 9 November 2011
The moment armed robber meets his match in two cage fighters staying at the hotel he was trying to hold up
An armed robber got more than he bargained for after being tackled by two cage fighters who just happened to be staying at the hotel he was trying to hold-up.
Gun-toting Luis Rosales definitely made the wrong move when he walked into the Comfort Inn hotel in LA's Koreatown, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded he fill a bag full of cash.
After handing over money from the till, the clerk noticed Rosales place the weapon in the bag along with the cash. He followed him out of the office, grabbed him from behind and screamed for help.
Luckily for him, two of his guests, trained martial arts experts Brent Alvarez and Billy Denney, had just arrived in town for a tournament in Long Beach and were waiting in the lobby.
As Rosales, 31, struggled to break free the two fighters leapt into action with Denney grabbing the robber in a hold while Alvarez seized the gun.
They then put him on the ground with a leg sweep and held him until police arrived.
Denney, 28, told the LA Times: 'The manager eye-balled us and immediately started running after this guy saying "He's got a gun, he's got a gun, he's got a gun, he just robbed me".
'He body-locks him and that's when me and Brent. kind of rushed the guy.'
Alvarez, 33, a former hip-hop club bouncer added: 'He wasn't trying to punch us; he just seemed like someone who had run out of options.
'I think back now and wonder what the hell was I doing? I should have hit him and knocked him out.'
Alvarez, who runs runs Twisted Web Martial arts studio in Eugene, Oregon, and Denney who is his student, ended up struggling for several minutes with Rosales before the Police arrived and brought things under control.
Alvarez claims the suspect kept insisting he was desperate and was only doing it for his daughter.
The Los Angeles Police Departnment have commended the two men for their bravery.
Officer Rosario Herrera of the LAPD said: 'When the officers arrived they saw a man on the ground being held by two citizens.
'From there we disarmed him, we got the money.'
Rosales was later taken into custody and charged with armed robbery with bail set at $101,250.
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