CHARGES GROW FOR ROBBERY SUSPECT; FORMER ATHLETE WILL STAND TRIAL FOR ESCAPE AND BURGLARY.Byline: Daily News Staff and wire services Former Canyon High School Canyon High School can refer to:
The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger and facing bank robbery 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. charges, was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges of escape and burglary. Newhall Municipal Court Judge Cynthia Ulfig ruled there is enough evidence to try Pugh, 20, on one count each of escape with felony charges pending and residential burglary. Pugh was ordered to appear May 11 in San Fernando Superior Court for a pretrial pre·tri·al n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts. adj. 1. Of or relating to a pretrial. 2. hearing. On March 2, Pugh and his cousin Georgina Greene, 20, were ordered to stand trial in the Dec. 2 takeover-style holdup of a Canyon Country CitiBank branch at 19100 Soledad Canyon Road. Shortly after that hearing, Pugh escaped from the courthouse, ran across Valencia Boulevard and hid in a Valencia condominium, where he changed from his jail clothing and tried unsuccessfully to get through a dragnet Dragnet radio show in which justice is always served. [Radio: Buxton, 73] See : Crime Fighting , sheriff's officials said. Pugh had asked bailiffs to let him use the restroom before boarding the jail bus, authorities said. Pugh managed to shed his handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. while in the restroom, but hid his bare wrists beneath his shirttail shirt·tail n. 1. The part of a shirt that extends below the waist, especially in the back. 2. A brief addition at the end of a newspaper article. adj. 1. when he emerged, sheriff's investigators said. Pugh then activated a security gate, trapping bailiffs on one side, while he rolled under it to freedom, authorities said. Deputies combed the residential area around the courthouse, using helicopters and police dogs and eventually focusing on the Santa Fe condominium complex on Del Monte Drive. Pugh was discovered walking just outside the complex wearing clothes investigators believe he stole from one of the condominiums about three hours after escaping, deputies said. Pugh and Greene were set to go on trial on two counts each of robbery in the bank heist, in which they allegedly wielded shotguns and stole more than $2,000 before fleeing in a stolen 1989 Nissan Maxima, then abandoning it and getting caught in a rental truck. If Pugh is convicted of the bank robbery charges, he would earn a ``second strike'' under the state's ``three strikes'' sentencing law. He was convicted in September 1996 of attempted carjacking stemming from the holdup of a Van Nuys pizza deliveryman. |
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