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SEVERAL CONVENIENCE STORES IN SOUTHWEST ALBUQUERQUE IS BEHIND BARS TONIGHT. BUT BERNALILLO COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES SAY GABRIEL SERNA DIDN'T GIVE UP EASILY. JEFF MAHER IS LIVE NEAR ISLETA AND PAJARITO WITH OUR TOP STORY. JEFF? IT WAS AT THIS MINI-MART WHERE DEPUTIES SAY GABRIEL SERNA HELD UP THE CLERKS AT GUNPOINT AND MADE OFF WITH SOME CASH AND DROVE AWAY WITH AN ACCOMPLICE. BUT DEPUTIES SAY SERNA'S HISTORY OF ROBBERIES IN THIS AREA HELPED LEAD THEM TO HIS HIDING SPOT. 'ms. Paz, do you understand the charges filed against you?' DEPUTIES SAY JOANN PAZ HAS SERVED AS AN ACCOMPLICE TO ARMED ROBBERIES BEFORE WITH 44- YEAR-OLD GABRIEL SERNA. SHE WAS IN COURT TODAY - SERNA WAS NOT ... HE'S SICK. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS TRIED TO GET PAZ'S BOND REDUCED - BUT THE JUDGE SAID NO. 'there was a swat callout and everything, your bond is ten- thousand cash assurety' YESTERDAY, DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO AN ARMED ROBBERY AT EL CAMINO RAEL MINI-MART. THE CLERKS TOLD DEPUTIES A HISPANIC MAN WALKED INTO THE STORE - POINTED A GUN AT THEM, AND THREATENED TO KILL IF HE DIDN'T GET THE CASH. THEY GAVE HIM WHAT THEY HAD - 57 BUCKS,,, INVESTIGATORS SAY HE TOOK OFF IN A CAR WITH PAZ. INVESTIGATORS SHOWED A PICTURE OF SERNA TO THE CLERKS... SERNA WAS SUSPECTED OF PREVIOUS ARMED ROBBERIES NEARBY. THE CLERKS CONFIRMED THAT HE WAS THE ARMED ROBBER. DEPUTIES WENT TO SERNA'S HOUSE - JUST A COUPLE OF MILES AWAY FROM THE STORE. THEY SAY HE REFUSED TO COME OUT - AND STAYED HIDING UNDERNEATH HIS MOBILE HOME ARMED WITH TWO GUNS. AFTER SOME TENSE NEGOTIATING - SERNA GAVE UP - AND BOTH HE AND PAZ WERE PUT BEHIND BARS. DEPUTIES SAY PAZ ADMITTED THAT SHE WAS WITH SERNA WHEN THEY ROBBED A BEAUTY SALON RECENTLY OFF ISLETA. BOTH ARE CHARGED WITH ROBBERY AND TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE. LIVE IN SOUTHWEST ALBUQUERQUE. JEFF MAHER. EYEWITNESS NEWS FOUR. INVESTIGATORS SAY ALCOHOL WAS A