POLICE ARREST BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT : `HUCK FINN BANDIT' LINKED TO 21 HEISTS.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer Police said Tuesday they've captured the ``Huck huck n. Huckaback. Noun 1. huck - toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric huckaback toweling, towelling - any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels Finn Bandit'' - a 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. suspect who earned the moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. for wearing wide-brimmed straw hats and using bikes and a ramshackle truck to make his getaways. James Arthur Pugh, 41, was arrested at a North Hollywood motel and is being held on suspicion of bank robbery. He is a suspect in as many as 21 bank robberies since May 8, including 16 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. . Authorities say Pugh previously had been convicted in a dozen bank robberies in the Los Angeles area. In the latest spree, the suspect also was referred to by police as the ``Bicycle Bandit'' because he would ride away from the banks on a black mountain bike, before escaping in a broken down truck, police said. On Thursday, Pugh allegedly was seen driving a vehicle that matched the description of the one used in a robbery of a 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. in Santa Clarita that same day. Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . units and sheriff's deputies from Santa Clarita stopped the vehicle at Chatsworth Street and Balboa Boulevard. One woman in the car was arrested as a suspected accomplice, Los Angeles police Detective Tom Gattegno said, but Pugh managed to escape. ``He commandeered a Dodge car and he fled in that,'' Gattegno said. They said that 15 minutes later, Pugh allegedly robbed First Citizen's Bank at 5000 Van Nuys Blvd., Gattegno said. The next day, Friday, Pugh allegedly attempted to rob a bank in Burbank. Then, later in the day, he is believed to have held up a Glendale Federal Bank branch at 12191 Ventura Blvd. in Studio City. Then, on Tuesday morning, North Hollywood Division officers checking local motels for the stolen Dodge, found it in a motel parking lot on Vineland Avenue, Gattegno said. He had been staying at the motel for about two days. When Robbery Homicide Division Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with famed executive producer Michael Mann. investigators were called in, they surrounded the motel along with patrol officers. Pugh became suspicious and was seen climbing out of his motel room to the street. He later was arrested and booked on suspicion of bank robbery. |
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