COUNTYWIDE : Man, 21, Indicted on Robbery Charge

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted an Oxnard man on a bank robbery charge, FBI officials said Monday.

Steven Monte Mize, 21, is in custody in connection with the Feb. 5 robbery of the CBC Federal Credit Union at the U. S. Naval Construction Battalion Center in Port Hueneme, FBI officials said in a prepared statement.

A trial date in U. S. District Court has not been set, said Gary Auer, head of the FBI’s Ventura County office.

Mize became a suspect in the robbery based on a description provided by bank employees and interviews of personnel at the Naval Construction Battalion Center, the statement said.

A subsequent search of his room at the battalion center revealed documents that the Naval Investigative Service’s Regional Forensic Laboratory in San Diego later determined were authored by Mize and used in the robbery, officials said.

A warrant authorized by U. S. Magistrate Stephen E. Haberfeld led to Mize’s arrest in Oxnard on March 24 by NIS special agents, the statement said.

If convicted, Mize, who recently was dismissed from the Navy, could be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years.

The FBI also announced Monday the indictment of a Woodland Hills man--now serving time for a Pasadena bank robbery--in connection with the armed robbery of a Thousand Oaks bank.

Paul Jay Rosenbluth, 64, already in prison for the April, 1991, robbery of a Bank of America branch in Pasadena, was indicted Friday on bank robbery and firearms charges, the FBI said.

If convicted on both counts in the March, 1991, robbery at Security Pacific Bank on North Moorpark Road, Rosenbluth could be sentenced to another 25 years in federal prison, officials said.