Zorro bandit; baseball-capped trio behind separate bank heists
GLENDALE -- Two banks were robbed Tuesday just 15 minutes apart, one by a man authorities have dubbed “The Zorro Bandit” and the other by a group who pulled off a well-organized heist, police said.
The first robbery occurred about 9:45 a.m. when three men wearing baseball caps and armed with handguns entered Bank of the West at 400 N. Glendale Blvd. Two of the men ordered the patrons and the tellers to lie down on the floor while the third man took money from teller stations and entered the vault, Glendale police spokesman John Balian said.
Outside, the trio joined an accomplice waiting in a gray Toyota with no license plates.
The other robbery was reported about 10 a.m. at Union Bank at 33 N. Brand Blvd. when a man armed with a handgun approached a teller demanding money.
The man is described as 5-feet-5 and 160 pounds and appeared in his mid-20s to early 30s.