Police accuse two youths in string of armed robberies in the Los Angeles area
Breaking News
Karen Garcia April 11, 2024
Los Angeles police have tied two youths accused of robbing a convenience store in South Los Angeles to a string of robberies throughout Los Angeles County.
On Saturday the LAPD received a call of an armed robbery in progress at a convenience store near the 3200 block of South Central Avenue. When officers arrived on scene, a witness pointed them to the suspects’ vehicle fleeing the store.
Officers tried in vain to stop the vehicle,
and instead had to pursue then pursued
it, according to a police report. During the pursuit, police allege, one of the occupants tossed a firearm out of the car, and it was recovered by officers.
When the pursuit ended, police detained both occupants of the vehicle: Los Angeles resident
Nathen
Sanchez, 18, and a
12-year-old girl, whose name was not released.
Police
allege that say
they recovered a large but undisclosed amount of currency from the vehicle, which had been reported stolen earlier that day in an armed carjacking in Hollenbeck.
The pair are also believed to be involved in additional armed robberies in
the City of
South Gate
andCity of
Azusa and additional crimes in the Los Angeles area, police
say
. No details were provided about those incidents or what led police to believe the two youths were involved in them.
Sanchez was arrested for robbery, with bail set at $175,000. No information was released about the disposition of the 12-year-old girl.
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Detectives in the LAPD’s Newton Division are searching for any additional victims in the L.A. County area. Anyone with information about additional crimes
in is
urged to contact Newton robbery detectives at (323) 318-3559 during business hours, or (877) 527-3247 during non-business hours or on weekends.
Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can call
the
Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477 or go
directly
to www.lacrimestoppers.org. Tipsters may also download the
“
P-3 Tips” mobile application and select
the
Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers as their local program.
