2 Held in Heist of Savings & Loan
FBI agents and San Diego police arrested two men Friday morning who are suspected of robbing a Hillcrest savings and loan earlier in the day.
An FBI spokeswoman said that officers arrested William B. Fries, 40, and James P. Rossi, 36, as the two were attempting to drive away from a parking lot at the corner of 1st Street and University Avenue.
Police allege that Rossi entered the Home Federal Savings and Loan on the 300 block of Washington Street at 10:50 a.m. and pointed a .22-caliber pistol at a teller while demanding money. Police said that Rossi ran to the parking lot, where he met Fries, after leaving the bank with an undisclosed amount of money in a brown paper bag,
The two, who are being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, will be arraigned Monday in federal court.
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