`DAPPER' ROBBERY SUSPECT COLLARED; TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO ARREST IN VALLEY.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A man suspected of being the so-called ``Best-Dressed Robber'' was arrested following a routine traffic stop in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , police officials said Sunday. David Russell David Russell may refer to:
``It was an outstanding arrest,'' said Sgt. Don Lawrence. ``One thing led to another.'' The man known to police as the Best-Dressed Robber would wear a shirt and tie and threaten that his partner would blow them up if they didn't comply with his demands, which were communicated through a note, officials said. ``Give me all the money or my partner will set off a bomb,'' the note would read. ``Don't try anything.'' ``That was the type of note he was passing at the banks,'' Lawrence said. Police officers who stopped Russell at 7:30 a.m. Saturday learned that the car with Florida license plates was stolen, then recognized Russell as the man pictured on wanted posters put up in the area, officials said. Police said Russell admitted he was responsible for 11 bank robberies The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. within the past six weeks in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Officials said that Russell told them his crime spree began after one hit of cocaine cocaine (kōkān`, kō`kān), alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in got him hooked hooked adverb Addicted , causing him to eventually lose his $80,000-a-year job. Although officials did not find Russell in possession of any weapons, he is believed to have shown a gun in at least one robbery. ``He lifted his shirt and exposed the handle of a gun,'' Lawrence said. |
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