Bail Denied for Final Suspect in Bank Heists
Bail was denied Monday for a man believed to be the final suspect in a group blamed for a series of violent, takeover-style bank holdups in Orange and Los Angeles counties, authorities said.
Liston Oswanio David, 34, of Los Angeles had eluded police since a 1999 bank robbery in Huntington Beach, according to the FBI.
Agents said David was a member of a group known as the Head Hunter Bandits, an aggressive team thought to have robbed 16 banks. Nine other alleged members of the group previously were taken into custody, six of them right after the 1999 robbery, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Luis Ochoa said.
Police and FBI agents arrested David in Los Angeles late Sunday.
A federal magistrate denied bail Monday. David is to be arraigned July 16, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office.
Huntington Beach police have been looking for David since July 7, 1999, when 10 men robbed the Bank of Yorba Linda in Huntington Beach. Police picked up six suspects immediately, recovered the money and tracked down three other suspects a short time later, Ochoa said. All nine have been convicted and sent to prison in connection with the robberies, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
David was indicted in April on six charges related to the Huntington Beach bank robbery, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Bruce Kelly said.
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