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Police searched Tuesday for three suspects who shot and killed a 51-year-old Brinks guard as he delivered money to a cash machine inside a crowded Valley Glen supermarket. Ignacio David Delgado of Canoga Park was shot and killed about 6:15 p.m. Monday in a Bank of America vault area and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The incident occurred inside the Albertsons supermarket at the Victory Plaza shopping center in the 13000 block of Victory Boulevard.

Armored-truck provider Brink's Co. plans to spin off its Brink's Home Security residential alarm unit into a separate, publicly traded company. The spinoff will probably be completed in the fourth quarter, Richmond, Va.-based Brink's said. The spinoff is expected to take the form of a tax-free stock distribution to Brink's shareholders. The existing company will continue to operate Brink's Inc., its secure-transportation and cash-management unit.

A pair of well-dressed gunmen were shot to death Friday morning after they confronted two Brinks security guards making a cash pickup at a Beverly Hills bank. Police investigating the ambush gone awry said the two unidentified suspects were fatally wounded in a hail of bullets after they surprised the guards on the sidewalk outside the Charter Pacific Bank branch at 8383 Wilshire Blvd. Witnesses reported hearing at least 20 shots in the confrontation.

Brink's Co., known for its armored-vehicle services, said it had agreed to sell its Irvine-based BAX Global freight-shipping division to German railroad Deutsche Bahn for $1.1 billion. The all-cash deal would let Richmond, Va.-based Brink's concentrate on security services. For years, the company has been narrowing its focus, starting with leaving the coal business. BAX Global's operating profit soared to $56.2 million last year from $3 million in 2003, while the unit's revenue rose 22% to $2.

Shots rang out on a busy residential street Wednesday morning as gunmen opened fire on a Brinks armored truck, chased the truck briefly and then fled, dumping their van in an alley and setting it afire. The attack could have been a robbery attempt or an act of revenge against one of the three guards in the Brinks truck, according to police officials. Police are investigating a possible link to the shooting of a robbery suspect by a Brinks guard during a robbery attempt last summer in Sylmar.

Herman and Judy Cook met in classic Texas fashion more than 20 years ago: He was turning her around at an Amarillo square dance. But the way Herman Cook, a Brink's security guard, died Wednesday was brutally urban: cut down without warning by a swarm of high-powered bullets. "They don't even hold up a gun and say, 'Give me the money,' " Judy Cook said Thursday. "They just kill you today. You need a fighting chance--or half a fighting chance."

A priest once implicated in gun-running, a retired police officer and an illegal immigrant who was imprisoned for explosives violations--all charged in a $7.4-million armored car company theft--may have committed the crime to help finance the Irish Republican Army, FBI officials said Saturday. Some of the money stolen Jan. 5 in Rochester, N.Y., may have been funneled to the IRA through postal money orders or couriers leaving New York City and Canada, investigators said.

A retired police detective and a priest with links to Northern Ireland were among three men arrested Friday in one of the largest armored car heists in the nation's history, the FBI said. Thomas O'Connor, Patrick Maloney and Samuel Millar were arrested in connection with the $7.4-million robbery of a Brink's armored car depot on Jan. 5, FBI special agent Paul Moskal said. Raids in New York City on Friday turned up "literally hundreds of pounds" of U.S.

Two gunmen wrestled with a Brink's security guard in a Buena Park bank and fled with a bag of cash and the guard's gun, police said. The guard was unhurt, and the cash loss was not immediately known, police said. The gunmen held up the guard and grabbed the bag as he was leaving a Bank of America branch in the 8900 block of Valley View Street, said Lt. Bob Chaney. When the guard fought back, the robbers knocked him down and took his gun, Chaney said.

Brink's Inc. repaid the Federal Reserve Bank of New York $8 million it apparently "lost" while taking $50 million in cash to Argentina, marking the security company's biggest loss ever, a spokesman said. The spokesman said the company was classifying the money as "lost" because it has uncovered no evidence it was stolen, but that investigators were considering the possibility of theft.

Brink's Inc. is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in Monday's shooting death of one of its guards, police said. Ricardo Gomez Jr. was shot as he made a cash pickup at a catering-truck company on East Mira Loma Avenue.

Police searched Tuesday for three suspects who shot and killed a 51-year-old Brinks guard as he delivered money to a cash machine inside a crowded Valley Glen supermarket. Ignacio David Delgado of Canoga Park was shot and killed about 6:15 p.m. Monday in a Bank of America vault area and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The incident occurred inside the Albertsons supermarket at the Victory Plaza shopping center in the 13000 block of Victory Boulevard.

Burglars struck a cash-filled warehouse in Fort Myers, Fla., and made off with more than $3.34 million meant to restock bank vaults after the Labor Day weekend, the FBI said. Workers with the Brink's armored delivery service discovered the theft Tuesday, FBI agent Brian Kensel said.

Acting on a tip from his employers, authorities arrested a Brinks armored truck driver Thursday on suspicion of stealing $55,000 from three Taco Bell restaurants. Hector Jimenez Alejo, 27, of Simi Valley allegedly stole money from the safes of all three Santa Clarita eateries on the same night, July 4, said Lt. Mike Dunkle of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Brinks officials suspected Alejo of the crime spree and contacted authorities, who obtained an arrest warrant.

Acting on a tip from his employers, authorities arrested a Brinks armored truck driver Thursday on suspicion of stealing $55,000 from three Taco Bell restaurants. Hector Jimenez Alejo, 27, of Simi Valley allegedly took money from the safes of all three Santa Clarita restaurants on the night of July 4, said Lt. Mike Dunkle of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Brinks officials suspected Alejo and contacted authorities, who obtained an arrest warrant.

Gunmen wearing black clothes and carrying rifles opened fire on two armored truck security guards at the Desert Inn hotel-casino Monday, sending bullets into windows of another resort and startling tourists on the busy Strip. One guard was shot in the arm and the second guard was shot twice in the leg. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer Steve Meriwether said. No one else was injured. No money was taken and no suspects were in custody.

A robber held up an armored car guard Friday inside a San Fernando Valley supermarket, escaping with a bag of cash and the guard's gun, police said. No one was injured in the incident. The robber, armed with a stainless steel revolver, approached the Brink's guard as he prepared to leave a Ralphs supermarket on Ventura Boulevard in Encino about 10 a.m., Sgt. J. J. Thompson said.

A Brink's armored car guard shot and killed a holdup man in a shoot-out inside an electronics store in Koreatown late Friday afternoon, but a second suspect grabbed a money bag and fled into a street bustling with holiday shoppers, police said. It was not immediately known how much money was in the bag, picked up at ITC Electronics Supermarket, according to police, but the escaping holdup man may have also paid a price for the robbery. Blood was found on the sidewalk outside the store.

A Brink's armored car guard was fatally shot Thursday morning during a robbery at a Vernon wholesale grocery store, according to Vernon police. The guard was making a routine pickup inside the JETRO Cash and Carry store in the 2300 block of East 57th Street, near Alameda Street and Slauson Avenue. About 9 a.m., as the guard was about to leave, a man shot him once in the head, said Vernon Police Chief Bruce W. Olson. The guard died instantly, Olson said.

A pair of well-dressed gunmen were shot to death Friday morning after they confronted two Brinks security guards making a cash pickup at a Beverly Hills bank. Police investigating the ambush gone awry said the two unidentified suspects were fatally wounded in a hail of bullets after they surprised the guards on the sidewalk outside the Charter Pacific Bank branch at 8383 Wilshire Blvd. Witnesses reported hearing at least 20 shots in the confrontation.