Police arrest serial Subway robber

Cincinnati police arrested a serial robber who held up a Westwood Subway three times in recent weeks.

Daniel Dezarn, 30, of Westwood, ran out of the Harrison Avenue business with cash about 7 p.m. Sunday, police said.

Employees saw Dezarn walking toward the store and pulling a bandanna over his face. Since the store had already been robbed twice last month, employees ran out the back door and called 911.

Dezarn took cash and fled out the front. By then police had swarmed the area, said Officer Kyle Strunk, who apprehended Dezarn with his partner, Officer Brian Carr.

Strunk said they had to fire a stun gun at Dezarn to take him into custody. Once they did, they realized his weapon was a black pellet gun.

"We knew this was the guy," Strunk said.

Dezarn was armed with that same pellet gun when he held up Subway two other times last month, on March 20 and 25, and Little Caesars pizza place, also located on Harrison Avenue, on March 27, police said.

Police suspect Dezarn was committing the robberies to feed a heroin addiction.

He is being held at the Hamilton County jail on four counts of aggravated robbery. His bond was set at $400,000.

He was convicted of possession of marijuana in 2007.