Police Briefs
Ellen McCarty, Ingela Ringbjer
POLICE ARREST BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT
Police arrested a Huntington Beach man Monday in connection with two bank
robberies, Fountain Valley Police Sgt. Jim Perry said in a press release.
Gerald Allan Hennessey, 23, was arrested in the 600 block of Terrace
Circle after Fountain Valley police and the FBI determined that he
matched a description of a robber who wore bandages around his face and
head when he struck Bank of America on Harbor Boulevard on June 14, Perry
said.
Further investigation revealed that the man could be responsible for a
second bank robbery in Santa Ana on June 21.
Hennessey was booked into the Orange County Jail and his bail was set at
$50,000, Perry said.
MURDER SUSPECTS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
Police arrested two men Aug. 12 in connection with a shooting death that
resulted when a bullet flew through a bedroom window on July 25 in 17400
block of Dairyview Circle and struck Alberto Mendez Olmedo, 23, of
Huntington Beach in the head, authorities said.
James Morfin, 22, of Garden Grove and Manuel Amezola, 19, of Stanton were
taken into custody simultaneously in separate locations, Huntington Beach
Police Lt. Chuck Thomas said.
The Orange County district attorney’s office have filed charges of murder
and conspiracy to commit murder with a gang-enhancement penalty on the
two suspects, Thomas said.
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