A Salt Lake City man wanted in connection to the robbery of a local grocery store last week remains on the loose. Cortez police have an issued an all points bulletin.

Cortez Police Chief Roy Lane has confirmed that an arrest warrant was issued for Michael McCombs, 34, on charges of aggravated robbery, menacing and theft. McCombs is suspected of robbing City Market just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29.

“We have received information that he is out of state,” Lane said Monday morning. “He hasn’t been apprehended.”

The suspect is described as a thin, 5-foot-6-inch man with dirty-blond hair and bad teeth. He was wearing prescription glasses, a sleeveless blue shirt and baggy blue jeans when the robbery occurred.

According to a Cortez Police Department report, a resident from the 100 block of N. Adams St. believes the suspect stole her purse and two telephones from inside her home before the robbery. The resident told police tat the suspect was with an old friend who stopped to visit. While in her home, the witness said the suspect asked to borrow a piece of paper and a pen.

A customer service representative at the store told police the note stated, “This is not a joke. This is serious. Hand over all your money. I have bombs set to detonate.”

The store employee said the robber then demanded only large bills from the customer service desk, and she gave him all of the $50 and $100 bills in the cash drawer. Police declined to release the total amount stolen.

Using surveillance video from the store, the Adams Street resident identified the robbery suspect as the man who entered her home.

tbaker@cortezjournal.com