4 BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS NABBED, MAY BE TIED TO RING.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer Police arrested four men believed linked to the ``Black Nylon Bandits'' - a group suspected in 18 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. 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. - as they fled a robbery scene Friday in Sun Valley. Forced to scatter scat·ter v. 1. To cause to separate and go in different directions. 2. To separate and go in different directions; disperse. 3. To deflect radiation or particles. n. on foot when the driver of a getaway car getaway car n the thieves' getaway car → el coche en que huyeron los ladrones getaway car n → voiture prévue pour prendre la fuite fled as police arrived, the suspects were picked up in various businesses near a Home Savings of America branch targeted in the 11:20 a.m. robbery. One suspect was calmly munching munching - Exploration of security holes of someone else's computer for thrills, notoriety or to annoy the system manager. Compare cracker. See also hacked off. on a doughnut and sipping a carton of milk when police found him. ``He just came in and bought his doughnuts and sat down,'' said a 20-year-old worker at the Donut Den. ``Then the cops told everybody to get out of the doughnut shop. There was like 10 police with guns.'' John Hoos, an FBI spokesman, said two masked suspects carrying nylon bags jumped the counter and took money from teller drawers as one man stood guard and another displayed a gun. ``They ordered everyone to get down,'' Hoos said. At one point, Hoos said, one suspect shouted ``get someone over here or I'll start shooting.'' The suspects fled out of the bank's east exit just as two North Hollywood Division officers arrived. ``The police saw them run across the street,'' said Sgt. Sam Layton. ``The police were answering a radio call that came out as a robbery in progress.'' A clerk of a video store said she saw four suspects run across the street from the bank with hoods from jackets pulled tightly over their heads. ``One of the guys lifted up his sweater,'' she said, ``then he ran behind the (locksmith) store, to try to get away from the police,'' said Maria Sanchez, 19, who works at Video Stage. ``He looked like he took something out and then he ran. The rest of the guys, they split.'' Police found a gun in a black mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). attached to the door of the locksmith building at 8031 Vineland and said they believe it was used in the holdup, authorities said. Authorities said they believe the four men may be part of a larger ring tied to 18 Valley holdups since February. ``It's my hope that this arrest today is part of the same group that had been doing Valley takeovers,'' said Bill Rehder, bank robbery coordinator for the FBI's 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. office. ``The personnel in this group change.'' Authorities said the ring is responsible for the mid-April holdup in Woodland Hills where the suspects ran across the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. . ``Strange things happen in all these cases,'' Rehder said of the group. ``This has been a bizarre situation from the beginning.'' Bank robberies are way up in Los Angeles, which is the nation's bank robbery capital. As of the beginning of this month, there have been 126 robberies with 32 takeovers, compared to 79 holdups with 12 takeovers last year. Robberies are up 60 percent and takeovers were up more than 166 percent. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color) A suspect displays money taken in a ba nk robbery. (2) An LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. investigator uses a brush to dust for fingerprints at a mailbox where a gun was found. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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