A man spent his birthday in jail, facing robbery charges, after demanding money from a woman outside a northwest Berkeley drugstore, court papers show.
Berkeley police said the woman got scared after seeing the man holding the handle of what looked like a silver firearm in his pocket when he asked her for money outside the Gilman Street Walgreens on a Saturday morning in June.
The woman, a Berkeley architect, was able to leave in her car, then reported the incident to police…