The State - News from May 5, 1989
A Yorba Linda man claiming to have AIDS and with “nothing to lose” was arrested after a tense standoff at a Dana Point bank where he took three people hostage at knifepoint during a foiled robbery, authorities said. David Clyde Sweeton, 34, a salesman who recently moved to Yorba Linda from San Juan Capistrano, surrendered to FBI agents and Orange County sheriff’s deputies after the 30-minute incident at a First Interstate Bank branch, officials said. His hostages, two female employees and a female customer, were released shaken but unharmed, an FBI official said. Sweeton was held in Orange County Jail on suspicion of bank robbery.
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