6 Planned to Kill Rosemead Man, Authorities Say

Six people armed with a variety of clubs and a suspected bottle of acid have been arrested after sheriff’s deputies found them hiding around the home of a Rosemead man they allegedly planned to kill, authorities said Sunday.

The five men and a 17-year-old boy were booked for investigation of conspiracy to commit murder and were being held without bail, Deputy Bill Wehner said.

The resident of the house, Vegas Dau Le, 51, was not hurt, Wehner said.

Le called deputies to his house in the 9100 block of Whitmore Street about 1:40 a.m. Saturday when he saw some of the men clustered around his car, Sheriff’s Sgt. Wayne Wallace said. Le reported that he thought the men were trying to steal the Toyota, Wallace said.

When deputies arrived, they rounded up the suspects, who were hiding near the house and car, Wehner said.

The deputy said the group was armed with a number of makeshift weapons--including a baseball bat, a broken pool cue, a metal pipe and a golf club. One man was carrying a plastic bottle filled with a chemical believed to be acid.

Detectives interviewed Le and concluded that the six suspects “intended to do him harm,” Wehner said.

Investigators did not say what the group’s motive might have been.

Arrested were Tien Dang Bui, 20; Loc Tho Phan, 18; Tam Minh Tu, 19; Phat Chanh Huynh, 22, and Frank Dai Le, 29. All five were being held without bail at County Jail.