HAPPENSTANCE RESULTS IN ARREST OF MAN SOUGHT IN 8 ROBBERIES.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer Police say Tyrone Harris' number was up. Why else would a man wanted in as many as eight robberies drive into a North Hollywood area cordoned off by police? ``He just drove right into it,'' said Detective Jim Gerardi of the Los Angeles Police Department's North Hollywood Division. ``His time was up - that's what it comes down to.'' When police, who were searching for two men involved in suspicious activity, tried to question Harris, he fled - possible fearing that they were looking for him. ``He stepped on the gas, almost ran into an officer,'' Gerardi said. Harris was driving a 1988 maroon maroon, term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron by the French and cimarrón by the Spanish. Formerly much used in the West Indies and South America, the term later came to be used with particular reference to certain blacks living in W Jamaica. Nissan Pulsar reported stolen in a carjacking Jan. 24 out of the LAPD's Pacific Division. He led police on a car chase for 20 minutes before he was stopped and arrested in Burbank. Harris, 31, of Los Angeles, was booked on suspicion of carjacking, and he has five robbery charges pending against him for crimes in La Crescenta and Pasadena, police said. As Harris was being arrested, police in North Hollywood found the two men they were actually looking for in the area of Riverside Drive and Clybourn Avenue. Pillow cases and firearms were discovered inside their car. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Police arrest a suspected robber in North Hollywood. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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