Man Pleads Guilty in Attempted Kidnaping
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A 22-year-old Canoga Park man on trial for holding two women captive with a pistol while searching an apartment for his girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to five charges stemming from an earlier incident in which he tried to kidnap a different former girlfriend.
Larry S. Pollock pleaded guilty in Van Nuys Superior Court to attempted kidnaping, possession of bomb components, possession of a machine gun, burglary and possession of steroids for sale.
Under a plea bargain, the former nightclub bouncer will be sentenced to prison for at least 7 1/2 years but not more than 10 1/3 years, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan Schwartz.
Judge Darlene E. Schempp will sentence Pollock on Oct. 27.
He pleaded to charges stemming from a July, 1988, incident in Panorama City in which Pollock threatened a former girlfriend, claiming she owed him money.
Prosecutors say that on May 2, while free on bail on the Panorama City charges, Pollock smashed his way into a West Hills apartment in search of another girlfriend. He is on trial for allegedly threatening to kill the former girlfriend’s two roommates.
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