OXNARD : Grand Jury Indicts 3 in Bank Robberies

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted three Oxnard men on bank robbery charges stemming from separate offenses, the FBI announced Monday.

The indictments, handed up Friday, followed the arrests of the men in February after robberies at Oxnard and Port Hueneme banks, said Charlie J. Parsons, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office.

One of those indicted, 31-year-old David Henry Menendez of Oxnard, was charged with six robberies, after a fingerprint taken from a demand note at one bank tied him to five other robberies, Parsons said.

Menendez was named as the suspect in five robberies of Oxnard banks between Dec. 23 and Feb. 10. He was also charged with the Feb. 10 robbery of a Port Hueneme branch of the Bank of A. Levy, Parsons said. Menendez was arrested Feb. 13, after a photograph published in a local newspaper led to his identification by neighbors, Parsons said.

Also indicted on one count of bank robbery each were Ramon Murillo Martinez, 53, and Aaron Adem Trujillo, 29.

Martinez was arrested after a robbery at Security Pacific Bank on Oxnard’s A Street on Feb. 18, after employees and customers of the bank directed police officers to Martinez’s car.

Trujillo was arrested an hour after a Feb. 20 robbery of Household Bank in Port Hueneme, when a description of the getaway vehicle led Oxnard Police officers to arrest him in the La Colonia section of Oxnard.

If convicted, the men face a maximum 20-year sentence and $5,000 fine for each count, Parsons said.