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.