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PASADENA — A hearing regarding a potential jury trial for a suspected robber was continued to Friday, officials said. Alan Freibaum, 55, whom authorities claim was the so-called irreconcilable differences bandit, was arrested in June 2007 by Glendale police officers as he fled Wells Fargo Bank at 535 N. Brand Blvd. He earned his moniker after he robbed his first bank in Beverly Hills, asking the teller to help him wire money in a way that would go undetected by his wife’s attorney, as he was in the middle of a divorce, FBI officials said.

Detectives from the Glendale police financial crimes unit arrested three suspects July 24 in connection with card skimming crimes. Meher Abolian, 21, Tiffany Conant, 20, and Rane Melkom, 22, were arrested after detectives saw them attaching and later collecting a card skimmer they had installed on a Glendale Washington Mutual Bank automated teller machine (ATM) access door. A skimmer is a small electronic device that can be attached to an ATM or its access door. As a customer slides his or her bank card through what they think is the bank’s identification system, the magnetic strip from the back of the bank, ATM or credit card is read by the skimmer.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE ? Police were on the hunt Thursday for the man who robbed a bank on Brand Boulevard, slipping a teller a note and then fleeing on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. Officers were dispatched to Washington Mutual in the 600 block of Brand Boulevard at about 3:30 p.m., Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. Bank employees at the scene told officers that a clean-cut man in his 30s, wearing a black collared shirt and light brown pants, slipped a teller a note demanding cash.

Police hunt for bank robber Police were searching Friday for a man in his mid-20s who robbed the Bank of America on Brand Boulevard and fled with an unknown amount of cash. Police dispatch received a call at about 4 p.m., saying that a man who appeared to have a gun held up a teller, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. The man approached one of the tellers at the bank and demanded money, then escaped, Lorenz said. ?It appears the suspect simulated a weapon,?

Normally a quiet community, the Crescenta Valley has fallen victim to two robberies this week and the sheriff’s station is asking the public for help. The most recent robbery occurred just before noon on Wednesday at the Bank of America, 3147 Foothill Blvd. just east of Pennsylvania Avenue in La Crescenta. A man, described as Hispanic in his 30s, 5 foot, 10 inches to 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, wearing a Dallas Cowboys baseball-type hat, gray patterned dress shirt with sleeves rolled halfway up his arm, and a black, long sleeved T-shirt under it. He also had tattoos on his neck and a mustache and goatee.

DOWNTOWN — A man who allegedly tried to deposit a $4,000 phony check Thursday at Washington Mutual Bank was arrested after bank employees detected a discrepancy in the man's signature, authorities said. Jason Henderson, 31, was booked on suspicion of forgery and taken to Glendale City Jail on $20,000 bail, Glendale Police Officer John Balian said. Henderson, who identified himself to a bank teller as Kevin Jones, tried to deposit the check in an account under Jones' name, bank spokesman Gary Kishner said.

GLENDALE — Police are searching for five men involved in two separate armed bank robberies that occurred within a 15-minute time span Tuesday. The Bank of the West in the 400 block of North Glendale Avenue was the first to be robbed at about 9:45 a.m. when three men armed with handguns ordered everyone inside onto the ground, Glendale Police Officer John Balian said. One of the robbers had a bank employee lead him to the bank's vault, where he took a large amount of U.S. currency, Balian said.

GLENDALE — Police arrested a man they believe is the so-called "Irreconcilable Differences" bandit Tuesday as he fled a Glendale bank, ending a spree of 17 attempted bank robberies throughout Southern California since December. The robber, who police believe was 55-year-old Alan Freibaum, earned his moniker after he robbed his first bank in Beverly Hills, asking the teller to help him wire money in a way that would go undetected by his wife's attorney, as he was in the middle of a divorce.

Grover Evans Jr., caught surfing the Web at the La Cañada public library for job opportunities, will be heading back to Arkansas thanks to Los Angeles County Sheriff community policing. According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, on Dec. 23, Evans, 18, entered the Metropolitan National Bank in Little Rock, Ark., armed with a handgun. Evans allegedly shot a teller, James Garison, who died of from his injuries. He then demanded money from a second bank teller, who, fearing for his life, gave him an undisclosed amount of cash.