SCHOOLS LOCKED DOWN FOR SAFETY DEPUTIES SEARCH FOR ROBBER NEAR CAMPUSES.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande and Paul O'Donoghue Staff Writers AGOURA HILLS - Sheriff's K-9 units, a helicopter and deputies searched for 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, while two elementary schools elementary school: see school. were ordered locked down, following the heist Thursday at the 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. , authorities said. At 1:10 p.m. the robber jumped the counter of the bank at 5837 Kanan Road, grabbed some money and fled, said Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Deputy Jeff Sweet. ``We're containing (the area) and trying to search for the suspect using dogs and helicopters,'' said Sweet, of Lost Hills/Mailubu sheriff's station. The suspect was described as a white male, about 5-foot-10, weighing about 200 pounds. Sweet said he did not know how much money the robber took. Soon after Thursday's robbery, Sumac sumac or sumach (sh  `măk, s and Willow elementary schools were ordered to close and lock their doors for fear that the suspect might decide to take refuge there, officials said. It the second bank robbery this week in the area following a hold up at the Downey Savings & Loan in Westlake Village on Monday. The two local schools followed the safety rules of the Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. , and made announcements over the public address system to notify teachers of the need for a lock down, officials said. ``We used a code to let them know this wasn't a drill,'' said Sumac principal Karen Hansen. ``The teachers know what to do from there. Then my assistant principal and I circled the perimeter and made sure everyone was OK.'' The students were dismissed at their regular times, near 2:20 p.m. and 2:50 p.m., but school officials took extra precautions precautions Infectious disease The constellation of activities intended to minimize exposure to an infectious agent; precautions imply that the isolation of an infected Pt is optional, but not mandatory. as helicopters buzzed overhead. ``I stood out there at Sumac park with my umbrella and stayed there until students left,'' Hansen said. ``We had an assistant principal at the other exit and teachers out in front. So it was dismissal with extra precautions on our part to make sure no one was around.'' A few blocks away at Willow, school officials said they kept their students in the multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room and dismissed them only to their parents. Don Zimring, Las Virgenes Unified's assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of business, said the lock downs were primarily a precaution but were something that may serve the school in a real emergency in the future. ``It certainly was an excellent exercise for the schools and both principals did a great job,'' he said. Sheriff's deputies arrived on campus after all the children had gone to search the classrooms for intruders. |
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