POLICE TRACK SUSPECT IN JEWELRY SHOP HEIST.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer Police have arrested one suspect and hope to capture another in the Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. robbery of a Van Nuys jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion. The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring. store in which two accomplices were gunned down by the store owner, detectives said Sunday. Van Nuys Division homicide detectives ``have got the fourth person tentatively identified and were in here Saturday to get some more information on him,'' said Detective John Edwards  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. . ``They're working vigorously to find him.'' The fourth suspect's name was not being released Sunday, Edwards said. In all, four people were involved in the robbery of Segovia Jewelry on Victory Boulevard Victory Boulevard is a major thoroughfare on Staten Island, measuring approximately 8.0 miles (12.87 km) and stretching from the west shore community of Travis to the upper east shore communities of St. George and Tompkinsville. near Woodley Avenue on Feb. 14 officials said. Store owner Nelson Segovia pursued the fleeing robbers and shot two of them, police said. Two others escaped on foot. After an intensive investigation, police arrested Addar Abdel Diaz, 21, of 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. late Thursday in connection with the robbery, Edwards said. Detectives tracked Diaz to an apartment complex in the 500 block of south Westlake Avenue, near downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . ``As he saw the officers approaching, he ran through an apartment and jumped out a second-story window,'' Edwards said. ``It was a rather dramatic scene but he was captured by a dog unit.'' Diaz was booked into the Van Nuys jail on suspicion of murder and is being held without bail, he said. Police said Diaz might face a murder charge if he is held responsible in the deaths of the robbery suspects killed at the store, Ruben Herrera, 29, and Eilia Moran, 35, both of Los Angeles. |
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