3 Arrested in Alleged Return Engagement by Robbers : Crime: Buena Park police are called to car rental agency after employees bar doors to men they thought they recognized from an earlier robbery there.

When three men walked up to the doors of Dollar Rent A Car on Tuesday saying they wanted to rent a car, employees thought they looked familiar--and locked the doors.

“I picked up the phone and called police and told them that we had been robbed a few weeks ago and that I thought they might be back,” said the 24-year-old manager of the car agency, who declined to give her name for fear of retaliation. “I just couldn’t believe they would come back,” she said.

Buena Park Police Sgt. Robert Chaney said the three men are suspects in a Dec. 13 armed robbery of the same rental car business on Beach Boulevard, in which more than $2,800 was stolen from employees at gunpoint.

The manager said the men initially returned on Monday, but that there were a large number of customers and employees on the premises. The men left before police arrived, she said.

They showed up again Tuesday, when the manager locked the front door, Chaney said. She called police again.

“Fortunately, the employees used their heads when they felt they were in danger,” Chaney said. “They took the right action by protecting themselves and calling police.”

Arrested were Sherman Hudson, 25, Anthony Daily, 29, and Derrell Morris, 20, all of Lynwood.

Morris was arrested in a nearby shopping center parking lot, Hudson was found in a rabbit hutch in the back yard of a nearby home, and Daily surrendered in the parking lot of the car rental agency without incident.

The three were being held at Buena Park City Jail on suspicion of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and various weapons violations. Their bail has been set at $50,000 each. They are scheduled to be arraigned today at Municipal Court in Fullerton.

Chaney said Hudson is expected to be charged with armed robbery in the Dec. 13 robbery. Daily and Morris may be charged with that crime at a later time.

The men are also suspects in the Dec. 6 armed robbery of a rental car agency in Signal Hill.

“They were definitely persistent,” Chaney said. “It’s pretty unusual that they would return to the same business, but that is what they appeared to do in this case. It appears that they got away with this kind of thing before so they continued to do it.”