FBI HUNTS GANG IN 63 BANK JOBS.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer In 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. , the world's 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. capital, a loose-knit group of robbers is blamed for 63 holdups in which suspects posing as bank customers flash guns and announce: ``This is a professional robbery.'' FBI agents call them ``Professional Bandits'' but insist that the suspects are not all that professional. They note that at least 50 suspects tied to the group have been arrested in the string of robberies since May. Eleven of the holdups have occurred 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. . Those arrested include not only those who enter the banks, but those who authorities say furnished the robbers - some of them juveniles recruited for the jobs - with instructions and weapons. ``They say, `This is a professional robbery.' I'm not sure they were that professional - they were self-proclaimed professionals,'' said Charlie Parsons Charlie Parsons is a British television producer who created a number of notable television shows including Survivor. He also created The Big Breakfast and ''The Word. , head of the Los Angeles office of the FBI. ``Many of them were caught. ``They would go in and pretend to open an account,'' he said. ``That's when they would notify them, this is a professional robbery - there's nothing unique or brilliant about that.'' Still outstanding, Parsons said, are three suspects who have been tied to bank robberies in the Valley. Larry Turner, 23, also known as ``El,'' and Ronald Dean Henyard, 36, known as ``Tweedy Bird'' remain fugitives, while a third unidentified member of the gang is also sought. Turner was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. this week in the Oct. 20 robbery of the California Federal Bank California Federal Bank, often abbreviated to "Cal Fed", was a savings and loan bank in California. It existed from 1926 until 2002, when its parent company Golden State Bancorp was acquired by Citigroup, resulting in the bank being merged into Citibank. on Sherman Way in Reseda, while Henyard was charged Friday in the Sept. 1 holdup of a 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. in North Hollywood. Authorities still are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a member of the group in a Jan. 31 robbery of the First Federal Bank in Tarzana. The spree comes as the pace of violent ``takeover'' bank robberies in the Los Angeles area has dropped from 1992 to 1995. Bank robberies overall are down in the period. The FBI announced the statistics the same day that Los Angeles police responded to a holdup at a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Sherman Oaks. Three men entered the bank about 10:30 a.m. Friday, took an undisclosed amount of money and fled in a black Jeep Cherokee, police said. The vehicle was found in a nearby residential area, but the robbers escaped. No injuries were reported. Parsons said that he doubts whether the area will lose its distinction as ``Bank Robbery Capital of the World.'' He noted that violent takeover-style robberies dropped in the Los Angeles region from 448 to 185 between 1992 and 1995, while bank robberies overall dropped from the 1992 record of 2,641 to 1,122 last year. He noted that in the first part of this year there have been 31 takeover robberies, compared with 46 this time last year. ``We're making some good progress,'' he said. Parsons said the decline can be explained by a number of factors, including increased security by banks such as better video surveillance, bullet-proof bandit bandit: see brigandage. barriers and an enhanced reward program. |
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