A suspect has been arrested after three bank robberies in Temecula and Murrieta. The 62-year-old man allegedly threatened employees with a gun.
Police have arrested a 62-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out three bank robberies within about an hour in Temecula and Murrieta. The man, Sonny Tho Leu, was detained by police in Murrieta after they stopped his vehicle. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, the first of the robberies occurred Tuesday morning at a bank on Margarita Road in Temecula. When deputies arrived at the bank at 11:51 a.m., employees told them a man had passed a note to a teller demanding money.
, just 28 minutes after deputies had arrived at the Temecula bank, the Murrieta Police Department received a call about an armed robbery at a bank on California Oaks Road. A bank employee told police that the man, wearing a black baseball cap and carrying an orange bag, had handed over a note demanding money while showing a gun in his waistband. Again, a teller handed over money, and the man fled. At 12:58 p.m.
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