CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake Police Department is looking for a Fort Bragg man identified as the suspect in a Tuesday morning theft of a vehicle and cash.

Alan Crow, 46, was reported to have taken a woman's minivan and money from the Burns Valley Shopping Center on Olympic Drive on Tuesday, according to Sgt. Rodd Joseph of the Clearlake Police Department.

Crow is considered armed and dangerous, Joseph said.

Joseph said that shortly before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday Clearlake Police officers responded to the area of Safeway, located at 14922 Olympic Drive, on a secondhand report of a theft of money and a vehicle at gunpoint.

Dispatch advised the suspect had just fled the shopping center in a blue van, Joseph said.

As officers were arriving to the shopping center, dispatch received a second call regarding the incident stating that the victim was now at the Mendo Lake Credit Union, located at 14866 Olympic Drive,  awaiting contact by police. Joseph said officers checked the area but did not locate the van.

Officers arrived at the credit union and spoke with a 60-year-old Clearlake woman who claimed that she had a male acquaintance named Alan Crow drive her to the Mendo Lake Credit Union in her blue 1996 Ford Aerostar van so she could make a significant cash deposit, Joseph said.

As the woman and Crow were about to enter the credit union together, Crow made mention that he had a gun and could not enter the credit union, according to Joseph's report.

Joseph said Crow asked the woman to find a place in the rear of her van to secure his firearm and offered to hold the woman’s cash while she returned to her vehicle.

Crow did not brandish or show her the firearm and the woman is not even sure if he actually had one, Joseph said.

The woman opened the back of her vehicle to try and locate a place to secure Crow’s firearm and while doing so, Crow got into the driver’s seat of the van and fled with the woman’s cash and vehicle, according to Joseph.

Alan Crow is described as a white male adult, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 200 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

The license plate on the stolen van is California 5CHT780, Joseph said.

Joseph said Crow currently is on Post Release Community Supervision out of Mendocino County Probation Department and has an active warrant for his arrest for violating the terms of his probation.

Anyone with information on this crime or the whereabouts of Crow or the stolen vehicle is urged to contact the Clearlake Police Department or the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction.

Clearlake Police Officer Joseph Myers is the investigating officer. He can be reached at 707-994-8251, Extension 505.