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Robbery: Machetes No Match for Armed Citizen
SELAH — It began when two young men with machetes walked into a Union Gap convenience store early Wednesday morning and demanded cash.What they didn't expect was a second clerk who pulled a handgun and held one of the men until police arrived. The other ran off.It didn't end there. Hours later more than a dozen officers — including the Yakima police SWAT team — encircled a Selah house and after a three-hour standoff forced out three other people suspected in at least one other machete-point robbery in Yakima.”It was a busy morning,” Yakima police Sgt. Kelly Willard said Wednesday evening. “We had a real quick turnaround.” Read moreSource: yakima-herald.com