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Motive. Robbery. 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 ...
Deputies of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department responding to the bank robbery call confronted the perpetrators outside the bank and a shootout ensued, killing one perpetrator. The perpetrators then stole a vehicle in the bank parking lot and fled the scene, leading police on a 25-mile (40 km) car chase into neighboring San Bernardino County.
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 Jungles faction of the Black P. Stones street gang is a "set" of the Bloods gang alliance in Los Angeles. Originating in Los Angeles' Baldwin Village neighborhood in the 1960s, the Black P. Stones became one of the largest gangs in the city. [1] The gang has been linked to various crimes, including murders, assaults, robberies, narcotics ...
Sophisticated 'burglary tourists' fly from South America to rob wealthy homes, LAPD says. Los Angeles Police Department headquarters is seen on Feb. 8, 2022. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) In ...
Playboys 13 Gang, also known by the acronym PBS13, [ 6][ 7][ 8] is a predominantly Mexican-American street gang founded in the Los Angeles County, California and extends to areas in South Central Los Angeles and Orange County, California. The gang also goes by the Spanish term " Conejo" which means "rabbit" [ 9] or Rabbit gang to identify itself.
Eastcastle Street robbery: 1952: Eastcastle Street, London: £287,000 (£10.4 million in 2023) Great Train Robbery: 1963: Mentmore, Buckinghamshire: £2.6 million (£68.8 million in 2023) Baker Street robbery: 1971: Baker Street, London: £3 million (£53.6 million in 2023) Bank of America robbery: 1975: Mayfair, London: £8 million (£93.2 ...
Forty-Two Gang. Founded. 1925. Years active. 1925-1934. Ethnicity. Italian-American. The Forty-Two Gang was a teenage street gang in Chicago that started during Prohibition. Like Brooklyn 's Italian and Jewish street gangs of Brownsville and Ocean Hill, the Forty-Two Gang served as a "farm team" for future members of the Chicago Outfit.