Local News in Brief : Suspects Tied to Thefts
An FBI spokesman said that two men arrested Wednesday afternoon by Torrance police may be responsible for as many as 32 bank robberies in Los Angeles and Orange counties over the last several months.
Daniel Eugene Frazier and Jerry Lee Crosby were taken into custody after a robbery at Southwest Savings & Loan and a high-speed chase that ended in a six-car collision, Police Lt. Don Feil said.
The FBI said Frazier and Crosby match the description of a duo that have robbed banks all over the two counties, including several in the South Bay area.
The thieves entered the savings and loan on Cravens Avenue in old downtown Torrance, brandished a pistol and demanded cash, Feil said. They fled with a bag containing an unknown amount of money, but a hidden pouch of dye “exploded all over them just as they were getting in their car,” Feil said.
A short time later police spotted a Chrysler carrying two men who matched the descriptions of the robbers speeding north on Crenshaw Boulevard. The car drove on the sidewalk and on the wrong side of the road before running a red light and broadsiding another car, causing minor injuries to several people in the cars involved in the chain-reaction crashes that followed, police said.
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