ROBBERY SUSPECT WILL FACE ADDED CHARGES.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A suspect arrested Monday following an Acton 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. faces additional charges after he attempted to escape through a skylight skylight Roof opening covered with translucent or transparent glass or plastic designed to admit daylight. Skylights have found wide application admitting steady, even light in industrial, commercial, and residential buildings, especially those with a northern orientation. from the Lancaster Sheriff's Station jail shower, sheriff's officials said. Facing his third strike, under the state's ``three strikes, you're out'' law he could end up in prison for 25 years to life. 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. officials, John Von Moos, 37, was transported from his cell into a shower unit at 10:20 a.m. But when the jailer returned to the shower cell to check on him three to five minutes later, he found Von Moos climbing up the well of a skylight. ``He was walking with his hands on one side and his feet on the other side,'' said Deputy Marty Shearer. ``His body was trembling trembling visible muscle tremor caused by fever, fear, weakness, electrolyte imbalance, especially hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia, and neuromuscular disease. trembling disease . If he would have let go, he would have fallen straight down.'' This was the first escape attempt at the new station, which opened June 4. Deputies said there were several attempts at the old station at 1010 W. Ave. J, but no one ever succeeded. ``They would usually attempt to get out as they are being booked,'' said Shearer. ``But they would never make it out.'' Shearer said escaping through the new jail's shower skylight would have been difficult. It would have meant getting through a screen of metal bars and removing the skylight glass. Von Moos was transported to the Men's Central Jail and is being held without bail. He now faces additional charges of attempted escape. Deputies arrested Von Moos and a woman minutes after Monday's robbery of an Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Bank branch in Acton. They were stopped while driving on Angeles Forest Highway The Angeles Forest Highway traverses the Angeles National Forest and connects the Los Angeles basin to the Antelope Valley by going up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. The highway is variously known as County Road N-3 or FH-59 or the Palmdale cutoff. It is about 25 miles long. . |
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