POLICE FILES - Nov. 16, 2000
Tariq Malik
Police have five Los Angeles men in custody after foiling their
attempt to rob a bank in Huntington Beach last week.
Police arrested Michael Perry, 26; Michael Caraballo, 25; Jose
Mariscal, 24; Demarco Chafford, 24; and Carlton Grim, 27, in connection
with the attempted robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank in the 6900 block of
Bolsa Avenue at 11:05 a.m. Nov. 6. Bail is set at $50,000 for each of
them, police said.
A resident reported two suspicious men walking from a Mercury Tracer
toward the bank, said Lt. Luis Ochoa of the Huntington Beach Police
Department.
Police confronted the men, who they identified as Perry and Caraballo,
as they exited the bank, recovered a semiautomatic handgun they were
carrying and stopped the robbery attempt, police said.
Mariscal was found in a second vehicle, an Isuzu sport utility vehicle
reported stolen from Los Angeles County, waiting in the Westminster Mall
parking lot, police said. Chafford and Grim were caught by the California
Highway Patrol in the Mercury Tracer, driving on the San Diego freeway,
reports show.
A witness identified the men as the would-be robbers, police said.
Ochoa said Huntington Beach detectives, as well as the FBI, continue
to investigate the robbery attempt.
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