'CROSS' BANDIT HITS VALLEY BANK.Byline: - Daily News A bank robber dubbed the ``Cross-Your-Arms Bandit'' - believed to be responsible for at least four bank robberies in Pasadena, 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. and Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. - robbed the Bank of The West Tuesday. The robbery occurred at 10:45 a.m. at the bank, 15165 Ventura Blvd., FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. The robber instructed two tellers to give him $50 and $100 bills, and then he fled. Nobody was injured. In the past, the robber has instructed tellers to cross their arms, earning him the ``Cross-Your-Arms'' moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. . This time, he didn't make that demand, Eimiller said. But other distinguishing characteristics make the FBI believe this was another Cross-Your-Arms caper caper, common name for members of the Capparidaceae, a family of tropical plants found chiefly in the Old World and closely related to the family Cruciferae (mustard family). , including the robber's semiautomatic handgun. The robber matched the bandit's description - 5 feet 11 inches tall, between 180 and 200 pounds in weight, tan complexion, wire-frame sunglasses - and carried a similar laptop bag. Anyone with information about the bandit bandit: see brigandage. should contact the FBI at (310) 477-6565. |
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