ROBBERY SUSPECT WALKS INTO ARREST.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA -- A man on probation for forgery has been arrested on suspicion of a robbery at a Citibank in Valencia. Jose Alex Mendez, 36, was arrested Wednesday at the Van Nuys office of the Los Angeles County Probation Department The Los Angeles County Probation Department provides services for those placed on probation within Los Angeles County, California, USA. Robert Taylor is the current Chief Probation Officer. The department is the largest probation department in the world[1]. when he arrived for an appointment, said county sheriff's Sgt. Howard Fairchild. Sheriff's investigators said they believe Mendez robbed the Citibank at 23453 Lyons Ave. on Dec. 4 by telling an employee to give him $6,000 and showing a semiautomatic handgun in his waistband. Fingerprints lifted off the deposit slip the robber presented to the employee matched those of Mendez, who was on probation for a forgery at a Citibank in San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Sheriff's Department. Mendez, who lived in Canoga Park but recently had no fixed address, was booked on suspicion of 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. , Fairchild said. He was jailed without bail at the Santa Clarita sheriff's station. |
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