HIALEAH, Fla. – A man has been arrested in connection with four armed robberies within a three-day period in Hialeah.
Police said Leonel Mollineda, 53, targeted women in commercial parking lots while they were near their vehicles.
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Mollineda was arrested Tuesday afternoon, moments after his fourth attack, Hialeah police said.
Officers apprehended him after seeing a 2003 white Nissan Altima -- described by victims as the attacker's getaway vehicle -- near a shopping center in the area of East Fourth Avenue and 50th Street.
The initial three robberies involved women being threatened with a knife as the attacker demanded their money. In the fourth attempt, Mollineda pulled a gun, police said.
The robberies began Sunday morning at 5400 Palm Avenue. Another woman was attacked in the same parking lot the next day. The third attack happened Tuesday morning in a parking lot at 3800 Palm Avenue.