Robber Demands To Use Victim's Bathroom Before Stealing Car At Gunpoint 
 
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 BERKELEY (BCN) 
 
 
 
 When you've got to go, you've got to go. 
 
 
 
 A robber who approached a Berkeley man outside of his apartment this morning forced the victim to let him use his bathroom at gunpoint, a police officer said. 
 
 
 
 The victim was returning to the apartment he shares with his grandmother in the 2300 block of Seventh Street at about 7 a.m. while driving his grandmother's car, police Officer Byron White said. 
 
 When the victim got out of the car, the suspect, later identified as 25-year-old Joseph Skyler of Berkeley, emerged from behind the building and pointed a gun at him. 
 
 
 
 Skyler allegedly took the victim's keys and cellphone, then told him he needed to use his restroom. 
 
 
 
 He forced the victim to take him inside his apartment, where he kicked the grandmother out of the bathroom and brought her grandson inside with him. Skyler, still pointing the gun, modestly made the victim turn around while he used the toilet, White said. 
 
 
 
 After that, he left in the grandmother's car. The family called police. 
 
 
 
 Police received another call about a reckless driver in the area of University Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way about an hour later, White said. 
 
 
 
 Officers responded and found Skyler driving the grandmother's car near The Solar Car Wash at 1198 University Ave. The officers arrested him and found a loaded gun in the car. 
 
 
 
 They also found Skyler's puppy and took the dog to animal control, White said. 
 
 
 
 Skyler was booked into jail on suspicion of robbery and carjacking. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ||||| BERKELEY -- Two men were arrested after one forced a grandmother out of her bathroom at gunpoint to use it during an armed robbery Wednesday morning, police said. 
 
 Around 7 a.m., officers responded to the 2200 block of Seventh Street on a report of a robbery and carjacking. A man told police he had just returned from driving his grandmother's Honda Civic when he was approached by a gunman, Berkeley police Officer Byron White said. 
 
 After relieving him of his car keys and cellphone, the gunman asked him for a different kind of relief: the use of his apartment's bathroom. The gunman followed the man into his apartment, which he shares with his grandmother. 
 
 A puppy was found in a suspect's car Tuesday morning after the suspected armed robber was arrested. ( Contributed photo ) 
 
 Once inside, the grandmother, who was using the bathroom at the time, was forced out at gunpoint, and the gunman forced the man to join him inside while he relieved himself. Then the gunman left and fled in the grandmother's car. 
 
 An hour later, police received word of a car driving recklessly near University Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. When officers realized the vehicle's description matched the grandmother's car, they responded and found it at a carwash in the 1100 block of University. 
 
 The car's driver, Joseph Anthony Skyler, 25, and a passenger, Harold Daniel Dennis, 24, were taken into custody and booked into Berkeley city jail on suspicion of several charges, including intent to use a gun during a felony, armed robbery, kidnapping, carjacking, and carrying a loaded firearm in a public place. 
 
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 The car's other occupant, a 2-month-old brindled mix puppy, was taken into custody by animal control officers. 
 
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– A robber pulled a gun on a man in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, then made off with his grandmother's car—but first, he demanded to use the guy's bathroom. Police say a resident was returning to the apartment he shares with his grandmother around 7am when a man with a gun accosted him, took his cellphone and keys, and demanded that he be allowed to relieve himself in the man's apartment, reports Bay City News. Once inside, the man forced the grandmother out of the bathroom and made his victim enter the room with him while he did his business—though the victim was kindly allowed to look the other way, say police. The man then took off in the grandmother's car. Police say Joseph Skyler, 25, was found driving it an hour later. He and passenger Harold Dennis, 24, were booked on suspicion of armed robbery, kidnapping, and carjacking, per the East Bay Times.