Robberies Los Angeles County

A burglary suspect, holding his young son hostage, led Los Angeles police on a 150-mile high-speed pursuit Monday that ended in a dramatic standoff at the Mexican border, where the suspect dropped the child and sprinted across the international frontier into the waiting arms of Mexican authorities.

Two gunmen who botched a robbery and then held six people captive at an exclusive jewelry store in Rolling Hills Estates released their hostages and surrendered Sunday morning, peacefully ending a 17 hour standoff in the upscale suburb. With sheriff's rifles trained on them, the two middle-aged men finally stepped through the glass front doors of Morgan's Jewelers at 11 a.m. and were taken into custody by a team of special weapons agents.

Glaring at the son she turned in to authorities--then breaking into sobs--a mother testified Monday that the boy had told her about robbing and killing an Azusa convenience store clerk with his younger brother. "He said he had to shoot so there wouldn't be any witnesses," Marilyn Ross, mother of 17-year-old Nicholas R. Nabors, said in Pomona Superior Court. "He said he had to put a bullet in his head. I told him he was going to go to jail for this. He said he wasn't."

An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was found shot to death in his car outside a Carson bank Monday was apparently the victim of a robbery that occurred shortly after he withdrew cash from an automated teller machine on his way to work, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

A robber who survived a police shoot-out that left his three accomplices dead outside a McDonald's restaurant in Sunland was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years in prison for a string of holdups of fast-food businesses. Alfredo Olivas, 19, of Hollywood pleaded guilty June 15 to 10 robbery counts after prosecutors dropped three counts of murder, which were filed against him under a state law that holds lawbreakers responsible for deaths that occur during the commission of their crimes.

One reputed gang member was convicted Monday of eight murders and another was found guilty of three murders, all of them stemming from a savage string of armored car holdups and other crimes in the mid-1990s. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Bruce Millsap, 33, guilty on 23 counts, including eight counts of murder. Co-defendant Kendrick Loot, 28, was convicted on six counts, including three of murder. A third suspect, Roshone Colston, 30, awaits trial on four murder counts.

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.

Police were searching Friday for two masked assailants who bound and fatally shot a Torrance man Thursday night after his 8-year-old son and brother managed to escape during a home invasion robbery, authorities said. Officers arrived at the home in the 22300 block of Madison Street shortly before 10 p.m. and were met by the 21-year-old brother of Noorali Virani who told them that two men armed with handguns had entered the one-story house, tied them up and ransacked the place.

An immigrant suspected of shooting a California Highway Patrolman in the face during a routine traffic stop last week was captured Friday in the central Mexican city of Durango by Los Angeles police detectives and Mexican state police agents. Law enforcement officials said Florentino Torres Silva, 25, of Glendale, was taken into custody without incident about 10 a.m. after he was stopped while driving to a Durango hospital. Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F.

As her husband lay dead on the floor and her infant child lay sleeping in another room, a wounded woman played dead for more than an hour on a leaking, bullet-torn water bed while the man who shot her ransacked their Torrance house, police said. Lynn Finzel, 28, who suffered wounds to her ribs and liver from a single gunshot, was listed in critical but stable condition Sunday evening at UCLA-Harbor Medical Center.