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Thank you. In March of 1996, the Los Angeles Police Department was busy investigating a failed armored car robbery in the San Fernando Valley.

The job bore a striking resemblance to an armored car robbery a year earlier that had left a man dead.

Two masked men with assault rifles, thought to be AK-47s, fired at the truck with rounds that had pierced the reinforced sides of the armored vehicle.

Shell casings found at both crime scenes matched, but other than that, the LAPD had very

few leads. Eyewitness accounts contradicted each other, and the assailants had abandoned and burned

their escape vehicle. The LAPD didn't know that the two suspects had been arrested on weapons

charges less than three years

earlier in Glendale, just 25 miles from the failed robbery attempt.

Glendale was its own city, with a police force that was separate from the LAPD.

Information didn't move from one department to another like it does today, so the LAPD knew nothing

about Emil Matasarano and Larry Phillips.

The robbers had mixed results with the two armored car robberies in the spring of 1996,

so in the summer of 1996, they decided to change their tactics.

Instead of going after the armored cars that delivered money to the banks, they decided to change their tactics. Instead of going after the armored cars that delivered

money to the banks, they would go after the banks themselves. The two loud, terrifying, and

successful bank robberies they pulled off in 1996 earned them the nickname, the High Incident

Bandits. But those robberies were only warm-ups for the all-out battle that was coming in February of 1997.

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