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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 ...
On the morning of February 28, 1997, various residents of Los Angeles go about their morning: LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division Detective Frank McGregor, investigating a pair of violent bank robbers nicknamed the "High Incident Bandits", becomes dissatisfied with the stresses of policing and prepares to retire; Metropolitan Division SWAT Officer Donnie Anderson is reprimanded for poor ...
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 ...
The Los Angeles Police Department said the teenage fugitive was first arrested Feb. 29 in Pacific Palisades along with three other Chileans as they cased homes in the wealthy enclave.
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 ...
In her capacity as branch assistant manager, Romero had ordered double the usual amount of cash to be on hand at the bank on the day of the robbery. After one month of investigation, Romero confessed to her role in the crime and implicated Mack as the mastermind. [10] He was arrested in December 1997. His two accomplices were never caught. [9] [11]
An hour later, the BMW was seen in the jewelry district of downtown Los Angeles, where the suspects probably were trying to sell the stolen watch, Delph wrote. Detectives found video of the ...
[8] [9] It was documented as “Biggest Bank Robbery” under “Curiosities and wonders” in Limca Book of Records. [10] [11] [12] The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured."