Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works are over, Patty's long day in court may not have ended. Agents and detectives are investigating evidence that may connect her, as well as her Symbionese Liberation Army companions, William and Emily Harris, to two more bank robberies, one at the Guild Savings & Loan Association in Sacramento on Feb. 25 and the other at the Crocker National Bank near Sacramento on April 21. Indeed, there were twelve bank robberies in the Sacramento area in the first six months of this year, and investigators are now taking a new look at them...
...link was a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, stolen in Oakland, Calif., that was used as a getaway car. Investigators believe Patty rented garage space for the car in Sacramento the week before the robbery. The Sacramento police received a tip that the garage had been rented by a young woman who was acting suspiciously. TIME has learned that the police set up a stakeout on the car, which lasted from Monday through Friday, April 14 to 18. No one showed up. But on Saturdays and Sundays only a skeleton police force guards the relaxed city of Sacramento, so the watch...
Without Knowing. The casual approach of the Sacramento police may be one reason that Patty and the Harrises were able to avoid capture there from around last Thanksgiving until late May, when they moved to San Francisco. Last spring the Sacramento police stumbled across Patty without knowing it. The fugitives were living in an apartment in a duplex at 1721 W Street in the downtown area. They were using aliases -Patty was known as Sue Hendricks, Emily Harris as Suzanne Lanphear, and Bill Harris as Steve Broudy...
...routine check of the area, local police interviewed Hendricks, Lanphear and Broudy. All three reported that nothing unusual had happened on the night before the body was discovered. The police dutifully filed their reports. After Patty and the Harrises were captured last month and traced back to Sacramento, federal agents went through the police files and found the write-ups under the fugitives' aliases...
...activities by staging bank robberies. As a result, the agency has opened fresh investigations of a score of unsolved bank robberies in California in the past 17 months. The FBI has already linked Patty or her companions to two jobs. On Feb. 25, the Guild Savings & Loan Association in Sacramento was robbed of $3,700. Authorities say that the apparent leader of the holdup was a man described as resembling Bill Harris. The driver of the getaway car was a young woman. Going through the material found in the Harrises' apartment, the FBI turned up a scrap of paper...