Local News in Brief : 2 Suspects in 14 Holdups Held
With the help of a computer crime detection program, detectives arrested two suspects in at least 14 holdups at bank automated-teller machines in the South Bay, officials said Thursday.
Regional crime analysts learned of the string of robberies though a computer program, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Van Mosley said. Using computer predictions of further holdups, detectives from the South Bay Burglary Team, made up of Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach police and sheriff’s deputies, staked out banks Wednesday night.
They noticed two men in a car apparently watching the Bank of America on Hawthorne Boulevard near the Galleria at South Bay in Redondo Beach, Mosley said. The detectives stopped the men, who they said resembled suspects in the robberies, and reportedly found a .22-caliber pistol.
Keith Lee Harris, 20, and Patrick Pierson, 22, both of Los Angeles, were being held without bail on suspicion of robbery and attempted murder, Mosley said.
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