BOUNTIFUL, Utah, May 31, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — The surviving suspect in the May 4 robbery of Bountiful Pawn has been arrested in Houston, police say.
Thirty-year-old Alexyanis Cutino Jimenez — also known as Alexander Cutino Sanchez, the name under which he is booked — is in custody in Texas.
The robbery occurred on May 4 when two men entered Bountiful Pawn, at 135 S. 500 West, with the intention of robbing the business at gunpoint, police said at the time.
“The entire incident was captured on video,” Lt. Dave Edwards, Bountiful Police Department, told reporters. “Everything that occurred inside the store is recorded on video.”
Edwards said one of the suspects — since identified as 40-year-old Kleydys Arbolaez-Hernandez — immediately put a gun into the clerk’s face and ordered him to the ground.
The second suspect — believed to be the man now known as Sanchez — then entered the store and started moving along the counters.
At that point, Hernandez looked away briefly as he tried to close the door behind him to prevent anyone else from coming in.
The clerk, seeing his chance, retreated to a storage room and retrieved a weapon he was carrying. The clerk then hid in a corner of the room.
Hernandez pursued the clerk, and when he entered the storage room, he pointed his gun at the clerk, and the clerk fired at him.
Edwards said a physical altercation ensued between the two, but the clerk was able to overcome the injured man and called 911.
Police say that is when Sanchez fled the store. Hernandez, from Colorado, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sanchez was arrested and booked into the Harris County Jail, where he awaits extradition, according to a Bountiful police statement. The suspect’s white 2005 Saturn Vue was recovered in the Houston area a few days before the arrest.
Detectives are investigating Sanchez and deceased suspect Hernandez to determine whether they were involved in nine additional Utah robberies beginning on Jan. 26 of this year.
The two also have been linked to five robberies in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.
