As a reader pointed out, violent crime is up in Old East Dallas and the Lower Greenville area. And the stats just got a little worse.

Two East Dallas bars have been robbed at gunpoint since Tuesday.

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The Dallasite was robbed Tuesday by a customer who returned from the bathroom with a gun and walked out with $450. And on Wednesday, the Old Monk was robbed by three gunmen who got $6,000 out of the pub’s safe.

Dallas police senior corporal Kevin Janse told the Observer they don’t think the crimes are related.