Steak, seafood, salad, 440 years to life in prison
A former Sizzler restaurant employee who took what he knew about the operation and turned it into a crime business was sentenced to 440 years to life in prison Thursday. Derrick Oden, 41, used a gun to hold up three South Bay Sizzler locations and one other restaurant. He hit the Lomita location twice, and tried but failed one additional time.
A handprint taken from a plastic bag found near one robbery and DNA from a baseball cap recovered near another crime linked Oden to the heists.
Because he has two strikes and used a gun, the time kept piling up as Torrance Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold pronounced sentence. It didn't help that each sentence for each count are to be served consecutively. The sentence is a personal record for Deputy District Attorney Paul Guthrie "by far," he said.
Arnold said he was impressed by Oden's intelligence, but not by the way he chose to live his life.
Look for the full report in tomorrow's Daily Breeze.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
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