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Uploaded: Friday, March 7, 2008, 1:40 PM
Updated: Friday, March 14, 2008, 3:21 PM
Seeking robber, cops barricade Plymouth St.
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| Police last Friday evacuated and cordoned off the 2000 block of Plymouth Street and called in a SWAT team, believing that an alleged serial bank robber living there had barricaded himself in his home.
According to Mountain View police spokesperson Liz Wylie, the San Jose police department had gotten a warrant for his arrest and found out his home address on Plymouth.
The suspect, however, wasn't home that day, police said. He later turned himself in voluntarily to the Palo Alto Police Department.
Police would not reveal the suspect's name, saying only that he was wanted for robbing 13 banks around the Bay Area in at least five cities. Wylie later said that his name cannot be released because the FBI has taken over the case.
Residents in the area wondered what all the activity was about last Friday afternoon. In an e-mail, one neighbor said police "told me they had evacuated everyone from the neighborhood, and that they weren't letting anyone in or out, and that they were searching for someone, and that they'd called in a SWAT team."
He said police had arrived there at 3 p.m. on Feb. 29, and that they eventually cleared out "sometime between 10 and 11 p.m." — Daniel DeBolt Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by 4l4n, a resident of the Monta Loma neighborhood, on Mar 11, 2008 at 10:54 am How many MVPD SWAT team members does it take to arrest a criminal that isn't even home?
Surely if he was the kind of violent criminal that called for this kind of response, he would not have voluntarily turned himself in.
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Posted by MIke Laursen, a resident of the Monta Loma neighborhood, on Mar 11, 2008 at 10:18 pm Normally, I would let this slide, but you're a newspaper and should not be contributing to declining literacy. The abbreviation for Mountain View is Mtn. View. not Mt. View.
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Posted by Sandy, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood, on Mar 13, 2008 at 9:59 pm Mike,
Nope, its Mt.View . Mtn. would be Mount View. Now tell us how long have you been in Mountain View????
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