Results tagged “robbery” from Whittier Dispatch

     While sheriff's detectives aren't releasing too much details about yesterday's home invasion robbery in La Habra Heights, they would like to clarify one thing. No gold bars were taken from the house in the 700 block of Reposado Drive. The armed robbers who wore masks took cash and silver but no gold. And it's not piles of silver either.

     The two victims were tied up. Deputies said one managed to get out of the house. A neighbor helped free them.

     A man suspected of robbing a Whittier supermarket  on Thursday apparently planned his getaway. He ducked into a restaurant's bathroom after the caper where he shaved off his mustache, ditched a baseball cap and changed his shirt.

     But his plans went awry. He walked out of the restroom when police came looking for the robber. He got nervous which drew the cop's attention. It didn't help when the owner told the officer the man was wearing different clothes when he first arrived.