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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,

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 a meal modicerano and Larry Phillips.

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

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