Frank Reply Lands Man, Others in Jail
Honesty may be the best policy for some, but it’s not advisable if you’re plotting a crime.
A candid reply to a question by Burbank police officers promptly landed 24-year-old Ernest Suri in jail--along with six others the Long Beach man had allegedly been planning to rob, according to authorities.
The Burbank officers were responding Saturday afternoon to a report of an armed man in the 100 block of West Ash Avenue, Lt. Art Moody said. When police officers arrived, they found Suri toting a shotgun and asked him what he was doing.
“He admitted he was there to rob a drug dealer,” Moody said. “So they asked him who, and he pointed out the address.”
Officers recovered a half-ounce of methamphetamines ready for sale inside a room and a dismantled methamphetamine lab was found in a car trunk, Moody said.
Police arrested six people, all of whom remained in jail Sunday in lieu of $500,000 bail. The suspects, booked on suspicion of manufacturing methamphetamines, are Joselito Ulanday, 27, and Susie Ulanday, 29, both of Burbank, and Ronaldo Alfardo, 36, Elmer Reola, 36, Reynaldo Reyes, 27, and Francisco Suzara, 28, all of Los Angeles.
Suri also was arrested, Moody said, and jailed on suspicion of attempted robbery. He was being held in lieu of $20,000 bail.
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