Police in Los Angeles are looking for a man they say pretended to be blind to rob a check-cashing store of about $5,000.

The Torrance Daily Breeze said video showed the man wearing dark glasses and walking with a white cane as he entered the store in Wilmington on July 24.

The man kept up the fraud for about 90 minutes, chatting with an employee and asking for help filling out an application. He claimed to have lost his sight while serving in the military in Iraq.

But the woman said when she opened the security door to give him a bottle of water, the man pulled a gun and made off with the money.

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