STRING OF BANK ROBBERIES HITS 6 CONEJO VALLEY CHARTER PACIFIC LATEST HEIST VICTIM.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Staff Writer AGOURA HILLS - The Conejo Valley The Conejo Valley is a region spanning both Southeastern Ventura County and Northwest Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States. It was discovered in 1542 by Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, and eventually became part of the Rancho El Conejo land grant by was hit with its sixth 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. in a month Thursday morning, as a man carrying a black briefcase passed a note to a teller at Charter Pacific Bank demanding cash, authorities said. Authorities said the man walked into the bank just before 10 a.m. and handed the teller a note that said, ``This is a robbery. I have a gun. This is not a joke. Put the money in the briefcase now. This is no joke. Do it now.'' The robber did not show the teller a gun, but she complied and placed an undetermined amount of money in his bag. When he left, she hit a silent alarm that activated a camera. The robber is described as a white man in his 40s, 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds. He was wearing a black jacket, with balding gray and blond hair and dark glasses. He has so far not been linked to other robberies in the area, authorities said. With the recent spate of robberies in Agoura Hills, Westlake Village and Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , the bank had held a series of staff meetings on ways to deal with a holdup, said bank President Michael Ward Michael Ward may refer to:
``And we were aware that the risk was likely higher because of the recent robberies in the area, so we wanted to reinforce the procedure,'' Ward said. Authorities, however, said that six robberies since Feb. 7 is not a record for the area. Capt. Bill McSweeney of the Lost Hills sheriff's station said Agoura Hills and Westlake Village had 12 to 15 bank robberies within about four months in 1996 - half linked to the same man. ``My gut tells me that this stuff is cyclical,'' McSweeney said. ``You have a burst of these, in a cluster. You catch the central figure, the others have close calls and they leave, and lo and behold, the phenomenon stops for a few years. ``Just when I thought we were going to be the new bank robbery capital of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , we caught the person and it went away.'' McSweeney said the department will put a more intense focus on the bank robbery problem. Southern California had a record number in 1992, with 2,641 bank robberies in the seven counties, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley. Last year, the state saw its lowest number in 30 years with 639 heists. Bosley said the rate is up by about 25 percent this year, but said it is too soon to tell if that trend will continue. In Ventura County, there were three robberies in Thousand Oaks over two weeks in February - compared with eight in the county in 1999. With Thursday's heist, there have been three in Westlake Village and Agoura Hills since early February. McSweeney said the rash of robberies in Conejo Valley may be attributable to banks 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. putting in higher levels of security, from bulletproof glass Strictly, bulletproof glass would be glass that is capable of stopping most manner of bullets fired at it. Such glass cannot currently be made in any usable thickness (if at all), so what is loosely called bulletproof glass is, within the industry, referred to as to guards. But Bosley hesitated to cite a reason. ``It's the choice that the robbers have picked, and I couldn't tell you what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. in their minds,'' she said. Authorities said witnesses accounts vary on whether the man was driving a sedan or a purple station wagon with a picture of the Virgin Mary Virgin Mary: see Mary. Virgin Mary immaculately conceived; mother of Jesus Christ. [N.T.: Matthew 1:18–25; 12:46–50; Luke 1:26–56; 11:27–28; John 2; 19:25–27] See : Purity in the back window. Two electricians working nearby said they saw a man who fit the description go into the bank just before 10 a.m. One said the man seemed odd because he was dressed professionally but had scuffed shoes and carried both a briefcase and a black doctor's bag. A witness said the man drove westbound on Agoura Road - although the bank is a few yards from the Reyes Adobe exit of the Ventura Freeway. CAPTION(S): photo, map Photo: (ran in Simi edition only, P. 3) Sheriff detective Tim Youngem looks for evidence near a wall north of the Conejo Valley Charter Pacific building. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News Map: BANK ROBBERY TREND Thursday's robbery of the Charter Pacific Bank in Agoura Hills was the sixth heist since Feb. 7 in the Conejo Valley. (1) Downey Savings and Loan savings and loan n. a banking and lending institution, chartered either by a state or the Federal government. Savings and loans only make loans secured by real property from deposits, upon which they pay interest slightly higher than that paid by most banks. on Feb. 7; (2) 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. on Feb. 10; (3) Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. on Feb. 11; (4) Hawthorne Savings and Loan on Feb. 18; (5) Wells Fargo on Feb. 23; (6) Charter Pacific on March 2. |
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