Chapter 2: The Firefight

Norco 80

LAist Studios

True Crime

3.7 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The bank robbers make it out of the Security Pacific Bank, cash in hand––but they’re immediately met by the police and a firefight begins.

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*Editor’s note:
For clarification, Deputy Sheriff Andrew Delgado-Monti carried both a revolver and a shotgun during the firefight outside the Security Pacific Bank, which was standard for the Riverside Sheriff’s Office at the time.

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0:00.0	Support for LISD comes from Pasadena Playhouse presenting Eureka Day.
0:04.6	Jonathan Spector's Razor Sharp 2025 Tony Award-winning satire.
0:09.1	Eureka Day is on stage at Pasadena Playhouse beginning September 10th.
0:13.2	Tickets are on sale now at Pasadenaplayhouse.org.
0:16.6	Music LAS Studios.
0:30.5	A quick warning.
0:31.7	Some of the series includes descriptions of graphic violence.
0:38.5	At around 3.30 p.m. on May 9th, 1980, Deputy Sheriff Andrew Delgado-Monti was finishing up working
0:46.8	the traffic beat in Norco, California, with a fellow officer.
0:50.9	Well, we're standing by the cars, and in Riverside, we had an alert tone that the dispatchers
0:57.0	push a button, and it would send out a tone to all the cars. It would go beep. When that went
1:04.9	off, everybody listened because something hot is going to be put over the radio.
1:10.3	Riverside, the NARCO units have a 211 in progress.
1:13.8	Security Pacific Bank, more than Hamner.
1:16.7	Something bad's happening.
1:18.6	350, the suspect vehicle is a green band with weapons.
1:23.4	It was broadcast over the radio, armed suspects seen entering the bank.
1:29.9	Only seconds after the bank robbery was announced on the broadcast, an officer had arrived and the shooting had begun.
1:36.7	We threw our coffee down, we jumped at our cars, and we hear Balaski.
1:42.9	Glenn Balaski jump on the radio screaming bloody murder.
1:47.8	Officer hit, clear the air.
1:49.8	1199.
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