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December 10, 2009 | By Gerrick D. Kennedy
The home of a prominent former subprime lender was the target of a home invasion robbery in a gated Newport Beach community Tuesday night, an attack that left three people injured and police searching for two suspects. Nine people were inside Daniel Sadek's home when four men armed with handguns forced their way into the residence in the upscale Pelican Ridge community of Newport Coast, demanding cash and jewelry, police said. A fifth suspect, officers said, waited outside during the robbery.
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April 11, 2013 | By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
The bank heist crew didn't carry demand notes or confront tellers. The robbers' tools of choice included power saws, hand-held radios and ladders. They allegedly walked away with at least $6 million by cutting through the rooftops of San Gabriel Valley banks under the cover of darkness, according to law enforcement authorities. Once inside, the men used power tools to break into concrete vaults, then fled with bags of cash. FOR THE RECORD: Bank heists: An article in the April 11 LATExtra section about a series of nighttime heists at San Gabriel Valley banks described the crimes as robberies and the criminals as robbers.
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February 11, 2009 | Ruben Vives
Los Angeles Police Department officials said Tuesday they had arrested two juvenile gang members in connection with two robberies in the Silver Lake area. The arrests were made Saturday by undercover officers tracking local gang members believed to be responsible for the robberies, said LAPD Capt. Bill Murphy. Two youths, ages 15 and 16, were taken into custody on suspicion of armed robbery in two robberies near Hyperion and Rowena avenues. -- ruben.vives@latimes.com
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November 22, 1987
A Lomita woman asleep in her home on 248th Street, and a convenience store clerk several blocks away, were both robbed at knifepoint this weekend. Authorities believe that the robberies were related. Lomita sheriff's deputies said the robber escaped with $1,520 in cash, $1,370 of it from the first victim, Rebecca Magdaleno, 33. Magdaleno was awakened at 10:15 p.m.
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April 28, 1989
A Studio City man will be arraigned today in South Bay Municipal Court on charges that he robbed 23 fast-food businesses, including 12 in the South Bay, in a three-month spree that ended with his capture last month in East Los Angeles. Deputy Dist. Atty. Julie Sulman said Gary Williams, 33, was arrested and charged with robbery after a passer-by allegedly saw him hold up a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet March 16. On Wednesday, the district attorney's office filed 28 additional counts in South Bay Municipal Court for robberies that netted between $100 and $4,500 each, Sulman said.
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May 12, 2011 | By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
Two of three suspects arrested this week in connection with a string of recent armed robberies are believed to be responsible for the execution-style slaying of an MTV music coordinator in a Mid-Wilshire neighborhood over the weekend, Los Angeles police said Thursday. Jabaar Vincent Thomas, 26, and Destiny Young, 29, both of Los Angeles, were arrested in connection with the shot-gun slaying Gabriel Aron Ben-Meir, 30, police said. Richard Edward Anderson, 33, a resident of the San Fernando Valley, was also arrested on suspicion robbery.