The Region - News from Dec. 10, 1986

Two bank robbers, dubbed the “Marx Brothers Bandits,” struck for the 11th time in Southern California, stealing $100,000 after herding customers and workers in a San Dimas savings and loan into a vault, authorities said. Wearing dark business suits, false mustaches and wigs, the men escaped in separate cars after holding up the Central Savings & Loan office at 798 Via Verde Ave., Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Sam Jones said. The robbers’ descriptions and methods match those of two men known to federal authorities as the “Marx Brothers,” FBI spokesman Fred Reagan said. Authorities have been looking for the two--who often wear disguises that make them resemble the famed comedians--since July, 1984, when costumed gunmen began holding up banks in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys.