Burglar wearing socks on his hands eludes arrest in Fremont

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Fremont police are on the hunt for a man who wore socks on his hands during a break-in at a cell phone repair store before making his escape into a drainage canal early Wednesday, officials said.

The burglary occurred about 3:42 a.m. at a store on the 40900 block of Fremont Boulevard, according to the Fremont Police Department.

Fremont Fire officials witnessed the man robbing the store with socks on his hands and a shirt wrapped around his face, but he fled into a drainage canal that runs between Fremont Boulevard and Lincoln Street before he could be apprehended, police said.

The suspect is described as slender and between 5 feet 7 and 5 feet 10, and was last seen wearing a black-and-white short-sleeved shirt, black pants and black baseball hat, according to Geneva Bosques, a spokeswoman for the Fremont Police Department.

Two iPhones and a pair of Beats earbuds were taken, Bosques said.

Filipa Ioannou is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: fioannou@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @obioannoukenobi