ORANGE : Suspect in Custody After Bank Robbery

By HENRY CHU

April 24, 1991 12 AM PT

A Nevada man was arrested minutes after a gunman took an undisclosed amount of money from Home Federal Bank on Tuesday.

The robbery occurred about 11:45 a.m. at the bank, 1302 N. Tustin Ave. Police Sgt. Jim Hudson said a bandit entered the bank, handed a note to a teller and brandished a handgun before escaping with the money.

Bank employees reported seeing the man escape in a maroon van that headed west on Katella Avenue, Hudson said.

Police stopped a van matching the description just west of Glassell Street and arrested Patrick Lloyd Frey, 43, of Henderson, Nev., Hudson said. A gun, the note and money were found in the vehicle.

Frey was taken to Orange City Jail, where he awaited transfer to the County Jail, Hudson said.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

ORANGE : Suspect in Custody After Bank Robbery

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