EATERY OWNER WHO FOILED HEIST HONORED.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer BURBANK - Frank Miceli, who intervened in a late-night armed robbery near his restaurant and gave chase to the suspects, will be honored today as a hero by District Attorney Steve Cooley Stephen Lawrence ("Steve") Cooley (born May 1, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a veteran prosecutor who was elected as Los Angeles County's 36th District Attorney on November 7, 2000. He was sworn in for his second term on December 6, 2004. . Miceli, 43, of Burbank, whose family owns Miceli's restaurants in Hollywood and Universal City, also wrote down the license plate of the pickup Pickup A gain in yield made by selling one bond and buying another. Also referred to as "yield pickup." Notes: When the present yield is relatively low compared to the longer-term yields, pickups will be done by investors trying to increase the yield and duration of their the suspects used, enabling police to track it down and arrest one of the two suspects. The robber was later convicted and is serving a 23-year prison sentence. ``They're saying you've done something so wonderful and fantastic, and I'm sitting there thinking, what did I do? I'm hoping that what I've done is something that anyone else would have done,'' Miceli said. Miceli will be honored at the Odyssey Odyssey (ŏd`ĭsē): see Homer. Odyssey Homer’s long, narrative poem centered on Odysseus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] See : Epic Odyssey Restaurant in Northridge, along with other 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. residents who helped victims or authorities in crime cases. Miceli was leaving his Universal City restaurant after midnight on April 12, 2003, when he noticed a pick-up parked ``in getaway mode.'' ``It was just an odd time for them to be there,'' Miceli said. Miceli drove around the restaurant and came back to find the men no longer in the pickup. He took down the license plate and drove away, coming across two men and a woman who had been in his restaurant and were talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to two men on the street. Miceli rolled down the window and spoke to the group, and two men ran away and got into the pickup. Miceli followed the pickup onto the Hollywood Freeway as he spoke to 911 dispatchers on his cell phone. ``They said, 'Cease your pursuit,''' Miceli said, remembering that he was at first reluctant to do that. Police used the license plate number Miceli had provided to track down a burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. suspect to a Woodland Hills home. They arrested Jerome Anthony Brown Anthony Brown may refer to:
Police were unable to find the other suspect in the robbery, said Hilleri Merritt, deputy district attorney. ``Without Frank there's no way we would have been able to solve this one,'' she said. Since the District Attorney's Office began a program in 1985 to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. exceptional witnesses and others who get involved when they see a crime occur, it has recognized more than 500 people. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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