2 Suspects Held in Credit Union Robbery : Crime: A tracking device enables police to quickly arrest them. Three others are still being sought.

Police using an electronic tracking device arrested two suspects within 15 minutes after a credit union robbery was committed Thursday as the pair sat in a booth at a Whittier restaurant.

La Habra police received a 911 call at 10:12 a.m. reporting an armed robbery in progress at the Southwest Credit Union in the 900 block of East Whittier Boulevard. One employee was slightly injured during the robbery but declined medical treatment, Sgt. Ron Harryman said.

Within two minutes, police arrived at the scene and were told by witnesses that four or five suspects had driven off, going west on Whittier Boulevard. Police said they tracked the getaway car by following the signal emitted by an electronic device planted with the stolen money.

The device led them to the Baker’s Square Restaurant in the 16200 block of Whittier Boulevard, in the city of Whittier.

Additional police units from La Habra, Buena Park and Whittier, together with a helicopter from the Anaheim Police Department, converged on the restaurant at 10:26 a.m., Harryman said.

The suspects, identified as Larry Williams and Carol Viola Waight, both 20-year-old Los Angeles residents, were sitting at the first booth in the restaurant when police arrived, according to Kal Paviolo, the restaurant’s general manager.

Police managed to signal from the outside to an employee to usher three other customers and five other employees to the back of the restaurant, Paviolo said.

The suspects “just sat there,” she said. “The police came in and took them away” without incident.

Money believed taken in the robbery was found in the vehicle, police said, along with four ski masks, several guns and the tracking device. Police are still looking for three other suspects believed to have been involved in the robbery.

Williams and Waight are being held on suspicion of bank robbery at La Habra Jail on $50,000 bail each.