DEPUTIES PROBE LINK BETWEEN HOLDUPS; ARRESTED TEENS INVESTIGATED IN OTHER ROBBERIES.Byline: Daily News Sheriff's detectives are investigating whether three Lancaster Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. teens arrested in the armed robbery robbery, in law, felonious taking of property from a person against his will by threatening or committing force or violence. The injury or threat may be directed against the person robbed, his property, or the person or property of his relative or of anyone in his Saturday Saturday: see week; Sabbath. night of a Casa Roma restaurant are responsible for at least three similar holdups last month. Since early June June: see month. , three restaurants in Lancaster and Palmdale have been held up by three robbers working together, leading investigators to wonder if they and the Casa Roma holdup are related, deputies said. ``They're looking into that right now,'' Detective Paul Donnan said. Three young men also robbed a Lancaster Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. branch on June 18 in a takeover-style holdup, but an FBI agent said the Casa Roma suspects are not the bank robbers. ``The suspects are too young,'' FBI agent Gary Auer said. ``They do not match up with our bank robbers.'' In the Casa Roma holdup, deputies said three males walked in about 8:40 p.m. Saturday. One went up to an employee, pointed a gun at her and asked where the cash register was, then ordered her to show them to it, deputies said. The gunman ordered the woman to lie on the floor while the three suspects removed the money from the cash register, then fled, deputies said. Deputies in a Lancaster patrol car heard a radio report of the robbery and spotted the suspects fleeing, Donnan said. Two were caught within minutes of the robbery - one running, one riding a bicycle bicycle, light, two-wheeled vehicle driven by pedals. The name velocipede is often given to early forms of the bicycle and to its predecessor, the dandy horse, a two-wheeled vehicle moved by the thrust of the rider's feet upon the ground. - and the third was arrested sometime later, he said. The three - ages 15, 15 and 17 - remained in custody Monday in a juvenile facility, Donnan said. |
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