Cops searching Walnut Creek neighborhood for gun thief

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A man who grabbed two firearms in a Walnut Creek secondhand store and ran out on Thursday afternoon was the object of a large police search involving officers, police dogs and a Highway Patrol airplane, police said.

The suspect, identified only as a man in a T-shirt and jeans, walked into the store in the 2500 block of North Main Street and snatched the unspecified weapons from a display case shortly before 3:30 p.m., according to Walnut Creek police Lt. Lanny Edwards.

About eight officers assisted by two police dogs were combing the neighborhood. There were no injuries or arrests, Edwards said.

Steve Rubenstein is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: srubenstein@sfchronicle.com