San Fernando Valley : Extortionists Get $7,000 in Fake Bomb Plots
Two men who threatened to blow up nine stores--planting phony bombs to add menace to the plot--extorted more than $7,000 from merchants in Sun Valley and La Canada Flintridge, police said Tuesday.
The extortionists escaped with more than $7,000 from a Miller’s Outpost in Sun Valley, said Los Angeles Police Lt. Dan Hoffman, and an undisclosed amount from a La Canada Flintridge Kid’s Mart on Monday night.
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