Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Live Oak Torturer Photos Released
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Santa Cruz Sheriff's deputies are looking for two men and a woman who tortured a man in a room at the Santa Cruz Inn at Highway 1 and Soquel Avenue Sunday morning at 2 a.m. to get him to give them his ATM password.
They then robbed him and stole his red 1991 Nissan Sentra (license 6DDR049). They were filmed using the card at a nearby gas station.
The trio are described as: 1) a white man, 6 feet tall, about 20 years old, with a short beard and dotted tattoos on his face. 2)A white man about 30 6 feet 2 inches tall with long dreadlocks and a goatee. 3) A white woman about 18 with thin brown hair with gold highlights and shaved sides.
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The trio are possibly from the Bay Area and are traveling with a black dog. They met the victim at a downtown bar and joined him at the motel.
Anyone with information is asked to call (831) 454-2311 or (831) 471-1121.
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