GUNMEN HIT MARKET BANK CUSTOMER LOST RING, HOUSE PAYMENT.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer NEWHALL - Four gunmen robbed a Wells Fargo Wells Fargo armored carriers of bullion. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1147] See : Protectiveness Wells Fargo company that handled express service to western states; often robbed. [Am. Hist. bank inside the Ralphs supermarket on Orchard Village Road on Monday morning, forcing dozens of customers and employees to the ground while they ransacked ran·sack tr.v. ran·sacked, ran·sack·ing, ran·sacks 1. To search or examine thoroughly. 2. To search carefully for plunder; pillage. the bank. One of the ski-masked robbers pointed a gun in Adrienne Miley's face and grabbed $4,000 she was sending to an Oregon bank as part of her house payment, then snatched a sapphire and diamond ring off her finger before fleeing. ``I'm so glad I'm not dead,'' Miley of Newhall said after the ordeal. ``I thought I was dead. I just kept thinking of my children and what this would do to them.'' The robbers, who stole several thousand dollars, sped away in a silver Buick, which police found several blocks away - with the engine running and turn signal blinking See dry eyes. - in the parking lot of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church St. Stephen's Episcopal Church can refer to:
Neighbors told police they believe the gunmen jumped the lot's gate and got into a waiting sport utility vehicle, said 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. County Sheriff's Deputy Kristian Kozelchik. Police were still searching for suspects Monday evening, Kozelchik said. Miley was treated at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital after complaining of chest pains brought on by the attack. ``He was pulling on my other ring, but he couldn't get it off, and he scratched me,'' Miley said, shaking. ``I'm a single mom with three kids. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how we're going to make it without that money.'' Police went door-to-door in the Orchard Village neighborhood along Avenue Rotella, asking residents if they had seen anything suspicious around the time of the heist, Kozelchik said. However, there were no apparent witnesses to the gunmen' escape. ``It looks like your pretty typical 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. ,'' Kozelchik said. ``Typical MO.'' Old Orchard Elementary School elementary school: see school. , a few blocks from the shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into near Orchard Village and Lyons Avenue, locked its doors for about an hour while police searched the area, said Principal Ruth Gauthier. ``We just wanted to make sure our students were safe,'' Gauthier said. Bank and store employees gave authorities descriptions of the robbers and helped them find the Buick. The supermarket stayed open while police interviewed cashiers as they scanned customers' purchases. But the bank didn't plan to reopen until today. ``It was incredibly frightening,'' said Jaimi Hamann, 22, who was manning the floral department at Ralphs and the first person to see the robbers storm into the store. ``It was like watching a movie,'' Hamann said. ``I couldn't believe that it was happening. It is going to be hard to go back to work.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Laurie Siroonian from the Sheriff's Department crime lab, dusts the bank robbers' car for fingerprints. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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