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Police Search For Would-Be Bank Robber

A teller foiled a potential robbery by refusing to hand over money to the suspect.

A would-be robber fled a local bank empty-handed Thursday after a teller refused to comply with his demands.

The suspect went into the Chase Bank at 3870 East Foothill Blvd. shortly after 5:30 p.m. and allegedly slipped a teller a "threatening note." However, he panicked and fled the bank when the teller didn't comply, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported.

The suspect was last seen heading south on foot.

He is described as a 5-foot-10 black man with an average build and a shaved head. He wore a gray hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.

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Dan Abendschein (Editor) June 11, 2013 at 04:34 pm
Hi Susan, The graphic shows that in only one year from 2002-2011 were more Hispanics arrested thanRead More Blacks (2011) - if you hover your mouse over each point you can see the raw number of arrests for each group each year. That's despite there being a substantially larger Hispanic population in L.A. County. The data comes from the Dept. of Justice and was reported by the ACLU - and I believe the point of the report is that there is racial profiling going on, not to suggest that black people are using more pot. In fact, the study suggests that there is not significantly more prevalent pot use among any one racial group. The figure 2.6 times as likely refers to blacks vs. whites, as in mentioned in the first sentence of the article, and comes from the ACLU study. Our intention was definitely not sensationalism but rather to direct readers to this national ACLU study that included L.A. County data. Let me know if I can answer any other questions.