Police say another local hotel robbed Two...

Police say another

local hotel robbed

Two armed men allegedly robbed a Residence Inn at 881 West Baker

St. in Costa Mesa at 3:20 p.m. Sunday and took off with about $1,100

in cash, Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Zack Hoferitza said.

Hoferitza said it was the fifth hotel robbery in the last month,

all allegedly committed by the same suspects. One was described as a

6-foot-tall, 200-pound, 20- to 25-year-old Latino male, wearing a

blue or black baseball hat and Dodgers sweatshirt. The second is a

5-foot 8-inch, 130-pound, 25- to 30-year-old Latino male, wearing a

Broncos baseball hat. They have reportedly worn the same clothes

every time, Hoferitza said.

He said two of the four other robberies took place in nearby

Irvine and Cypress.

He said the two hotel employees, who were put into a storage

closet after the robbery, had been notified of prior robberies by a

companywide memo and knew when the suspects entered that it was them.

All the other robberies have taken place on a Monday morning. This

was the first one to happen on a Sunday afternoon, Hoferitza said.

The Costa Mesa Police Department has photographs of the suspects

from the hotel cameras and is working on getting them out to the

public.

JWA-bound plane reportedly crashes

A single-engine airplane headed for John Wayne International

Airport from Palm Springs Sunday morning never made it to Orange

County, authorities said Monday.

The Cessna 182 departed the Palm Springs International Airport

just after 8 a.m. Sunday, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman

Don Walker said. The pilot did not file a flight plan but was heading

to Orange County, he said.

A small airplane was found early Monday afternoon, about four

miles southwest of the Palm Springs airport, Walker said. The

wreckage was in a ravine at an elevation of 3,600 feet, he said.

Winds and the remote location delayed recovery efforts by local

authorities, he said.

It isn’t clear who was on board the plane, but authorities believe

there may have been two people.

The plane is registered to owner Daniel Espensen, a Desert Hot

Springs resident, Walker said. Authorities don’t know if Espensen was

on the plane at the time.