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The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight ...
It is a semi-fictional dramatization of the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, and follows the perspectives of bank robbers Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, as well as various Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers involved in the shootout. 44 Minutes premiered on the FX Network on June 5, 2003 to mixed reception.
While on the job, Pace had time to photograph and examine the company's Los Angeles armored car depot. He recruited five of his childhood friends, providing them with detailed floor plans and camera locations, ski masks, pistols, a shotgun, and radio headsets. [3] The day before the robbery, Pace was fired by Dunbar for tampering with company ...
LOS ANGELES, Ca. (KTLA) -- A 70-year-old retired Los Angeles Police Department detective was identified Thursday as the "Snowbird Bandit," who robbed five Orange County banks between March and ...
On Friday, Thomas was charged with three felony counts of second-degree robbery, one count of grand theft and one misdemeanor count of petty theft, according to the Los Angeles County district ...
The prior largest cash robbery in Los Angeles was on Sept. 12, 1997, with the theft of $18.9 million from the former site of the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street. Those behind the incident ...
The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and both SWAT and patrol officers in North Hollywood on February 28, 1997. It began when responding North Hollywood Division patrol officers engaged Phillips and Mătăsăreanu leaving a ...
At 3:40 p.m. on May 9, 1980, four robbers stormed into the bank and forced the tellers to hand over $20,000 in cash (equivalent to $76,000 in 2024), while the fifth robber kept watch outside. Unbeknownst to the robbers, an employee at a different bank across the street spotted them entering the bank and called the police.