Deposit Slip Leads Police to Bank Robbery Suspect
A man who held up a Security Pacific Bank branch in Buena Park for an undetermined amount of cash Tuesday morning apparently made one critical mistake.
He left behind a bank deposit slip bearing his name and address.
Buena Park Police Lt. Dick Hafdahl said the robber entered the bank in the 8800 block of Valley View Street shortly after the bank opened at 9 a.m. and handed a note to a teller demanding money. He did not display a weapon.
In his haste to leave the scene, Hafdahl said, the robber left behind a Security Pacific deposit slip, apparently with his own name and address in San Bernardino on it.
Hafdahl said officers immediately began calling motels in Buena Park and found a man registered at the Sunshine Inn on Lincoln Avenue under the same name as that on the deposit slip.
Officers arrested Le Artis Johnson, 35, at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday without incident, Hafdahl said, adding that the money taken from the bank was recovered.
Johnson, police said, was a regular customer of a Security Pacific Bank branch in San Bernardino.
Hafdahl said Johnson was booked on suspicion of bank robbery at Orange County Jail in Santa Ana, where he was being held in lieu of $50,000 bond.
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