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North Hollywood bank robbery "AUDIO" COMPLETE POLICE AUDIO
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Police radio audio of the north hollywood bank robbery.(( ALL DEAD SPOTS AND NON-TRANSMITION PARTS WERE CUT OUT TO SAVE SPACE, COM Police radio audio of the north hollywood bank robbery.(( ALL DEAD SPOTS AND NON-TRANSMITION PARTS WERE CUT OUT TO SAVE SPACE, COMPLETE AUDIO )).

The shootout:

Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu engaged LAPD officers in a firefight after robbing a branch of Bank of America.Phillips and Matasareanu arrived at the Bank of America branch office at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Blvd. and Archwood St. in North Hollywood around 9:17 a.m., and set their watch alarms for 8 minutes, which was the amount of time they estimated it would take for law enforcement officials to respond. (Phillips had been using a radio scanner to listen to police transmissions.) As they walked into the bank, however, dressed in dark clothes from head to toe and armed with an assault rifle each, a patrol car of the LAPD was driving down Laurel Canyon—and the officers in the car radioed in a possible 211, code for an armed robbery. Inside the bank, Phillips and Matasareanu forced the assistant manager to open the vault; they fired at least 100 rounds to scare those inside the bank so that there would be no resistance. They were able to get just over $300,000, since that day's money delivery had not yet arrived. At 9:38 a.m., Phillips exited the bank through its north doorway, Matasareanu exited through its south doorway, and they encountered dozens of LAPD patrol officers who had arrived after the first-responding officers radioed a "shots fired" call.

Phillips and Matasareanu engaged the officers in a firefight, spraying armor-piercing rounds into the patrol cars that had been positioned on Laurel Canyon in front of the bank. The patrol officers were armed with standard Beretta 92-type 9 mm pistols and .38 caliber revolvers, and some also carried 12-gauge pump-action shotguns, but the body armor worn by Phillips and Matasareanu was strong enough to withstand them. Multiple officers and civilians were wounded in the 7 minutes between when the shooting began and Matasareanu entered their white sedan to make a getaway; Phillips remained outside of the vehicle and continued firing upon the police. A TAC (tactical) alert was issued, and 18 minutes after the shooting had begun, a SWAT team—armed with automatic weapons—arrived in response to the alert and engaged Phillips and Matasareanu; they also commandeered an armored truck which they used to extract wounded civilians and officers who were pinned down. A nearby gun shop provided patrol officers with semi-automatic rifles, including Colt AR-15s, the civilian version of the American M-16 rifle.


Map of the area around the Bank of America (blue) and events during the shootout. A red "X" marks the spot where Phillips and Matasareanu were shot down.At 9:51 a.m., Phillips, who had been using the getaway vehicle as cover, split up from Matasareanu, turned east on Archwood St., and continued to fire at the police with his AKM. He reloaded the assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine shortly before he was shot in the left thumb, which may have prevented him from removing the shell that caused a stovepipe malfunction in his AKM. He set it down, pulled out a Beretta pistol, and continued firing at the police with his unwounded right hand. He dropped the pistol and picked it up, and shortly thereafter, Phillips placed the muzzle of his pistol under his chin and apparently shot himself while a round from a police sniper's rifle simultaneously severed his spine. The question remains as to whether Phillips intentionally committed suicide or accidentally squeezed the trigger when his spine was severed while attempting to reload his weapon one-handed.

Matasareanu's vehicle was rendered nearly inoperable after its tires were blown out. At 9:56 a.m., he commandeered a pickup truck on Archwood, three blocks east of where Phillips was shot down, and transferred all of his weapons and ammunition from the getaway car to the truck. However, Matasareanu was unable to start the truck since its owner had taken the keys with him when he fled. A patrol car driven by SWAT officers quickly arrived—Matasareanu left the truck, took cover behind the original getaway car, and engaged them immediately. At least one SWAT officer fired his M16 rifle below the cars and wounded Matasareanu in his unprotected lower legs, and he soon surrendered. The police radioed for an ambulance, but Matasareanu succumbed to his wounds by the time the ambulance had reached the scene.

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[blightsmite]

Ruined him? Hardly.

The 1st trial was a mistrial and the second never materialized. Matasareanu's kids agreed not to pursue damages if the LAPD would stop counter-suing them.

Hilarious side note: The lawyer that took the case (the one suing LAPD) is in federal prison:

Tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud, money-laundering

[lostinspace005]

or...you have never been to LA...do you know how traffic is in LA? ...also LA is so big it takes aleast 30 mins to get from one side to the other....and not to mention the time it gets for the SWAT to get ready.

[DartmouthAlum96]

7.62 x 39 mm

[jsooterlexsc]

the swat team was at the academy together. rallying didn't take long. TRAFFIC, however, was a bear. And coming from a SWAT operator, a 40 minute response time is still very good.

[jsooterlexsc]

actually, matasaraneau's family won 15 million because they supposedly let him bleed out after they captured him. hopefully, the 7 civilian victims sued his family for their wounds and emotional distress to get that 15 million into more deserving hands.

[Bryan90260]

I don't know how these guys do it.

[AGUSIS02]

You are right!, LAPD D. Platoon is based out of Metropolitan Division

[RHPDSIS02]

None of the families of the suspects one anything all the cases were thrown out

[Lawman449]

You are such a dumbass. SWAT isn't used often enough to have them all together all the time. They are disbursed throughout all divisions of the LAPD. When they issue a TAC Alert. They have to come from other divisions, home, the gym, or wherever else they are at. You watch too much TV you idiot.

[altlandf]

The person that ran the LAPD at that time must have been stupid. It's almost 18 minutes and where's the swat? Are they still on the donut break. Were they gathering the horses for the horse and buggy that the swat was in? Wills7MGTE you should learn to understand the court system. The police ENFORCE the laws. They aren't the JUDGE or the JURY!! Blightsmite the attorney for the murdered person was set up by the government.

[Wills7MGTE]

civil court should be done away with, its full of frivolous bullshit and losers suing because they cant win in real court, proponderance of evidence is a bullshit setup. I think criminals should forfiet all rights once convicted and if they are on video doing the crime then nop trial is needed, just a judge to view and sentence