3 Suspects Caught After Bank Heist, Police Chase : Crime: Police pursued a suspected getaway vehicle until it got a flat tire in San Pedro. The driver was arrested immediately, but it took a manhunt to find the other two suspects.

Two men and a woman suspected of robbing a Redondo Beach bank were arrested Wednesday after a freeway chase that ended with a manhunt in a residential area of San Pedro, authorities said.

Police made the arrests after the trio allegedly took an undetermined amount of money from the Sanwa Bank near Aviation Boulevard and Warfield Avenue and fled in a stolen car, said Sgt. Gary Wiley of the Redondo Beach police.

The suspects were identified as Denise Candace Reese, 30, Garland James Guidry, 29, and Danell Mark Barns, 20, all of Los Angeles. Police said all three were being held on suspicion of armed robbery and car theft.

Wiley said the two men entered the bank sometime before noon and fired a shot into the ceiling before ordering people to lie on the floor. The men then jumped over the counter and took cash from the bank’s drawers, he said.

Wiley said police saw the suspects fleeing in a red Jeep Cherokee Laredo heading east on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, then south on Hawthorne Boulevard before reaching the San Diego Freeway (405).

The suspects drove south on the San Diego Freeway to the westbound Harbor Freeway (110), at times reaching speeds of 100 m.p.h., and exited at Gaffey Street in San Pedro, finally abandoning the Jeep when it had a flat tire. Wiley said police arrested the woman, who was driving the car, and blocked off the area with the help of Los Angeles Police Department officers while they searched for the two men.

A manhunt was launched for the two men, with police K-9 units and an LAPD helicopter taking part in the search.

Teresa Alarcon, who lives in a blue stucco home on Santa Cruz Street, said she was baby-sitting her granddaughter and decorating her Christmas tree when she heard noises at her back door. She looked out her window and moments later saw a man trying to enter her home through the front door.

“That’s when I called 911,” she said, saying that the man then hid in her front yard behind a wooden fence where he threw down a “hat, glasses and a big wad of money.”

Police chased the suspect through her back yard and arrested him. It was not immediately known which suspect had hidden in Alarcon’s yard.

Gilbert Alarcon, her brother-in-law who lives next door, said he also heard noises and asked the police to investigate. Finding nothing on a first search, officers later searched the area again with a police dog and found a second man hiding in a barbecue pit.

Wiley said a gun and masks allegedly used in the bank robbery were found by Highway Patrol officers on the off-ramp connection of the southbound San Diego Freeway with the Harbor freeway.