Shoot-Out Survivor Pleads Guilty to Robbery
A Hollywood man pleaded guilty Friday to 10 felony counts stemming from a string of robberies at fast-food restaurants that ended in a police shoot-out in Sunland in which three accomplices were killed.
Alfredo Olivas, 19, entered the pleas in exchange for a promise by prosecutors not to seek a prison term longer than 17 years when he is sentenced July 24 in San Fernando Superior Court.
Police said Olivas’ accomplices robbed from 15 to 17 fast-food restaurants in the Los Angeles area between August, 1989, and the February shoot-out, when they were shot in their car by a controversial police unit, the Special Investigations Section, which had staked out the Sunland restaurant. Prosecutors had alleged that Olivas, who was wounded, took part in seven of the robberies.
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