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6 Part II Tuesday, December 8, 1987 ORANGE COUNTY CoeAnflcleg (Times 3 Banks, Motel, Bar, Home Robbed All in a Day in County By JIM CARLTON, Times Staff Writer With just 17 shopping days left before Christmas, robbers held up three banks, a motel, a bar and a private home Monday in a spree of apparently unconnected incidents across Orange County that police said may be holiday-related. Traditionally, there is an upswing in robberies and related crime at the holiday time," said LL Ken Whitman of the Garden Grove Police Department, which was investigating two of the bank holdups. "Maybe it's because the criminals feel there's more money in circulation." No suspects were in jail in any of the six robberies, and no injuries were reported, authorities said. Pistols were brandished in all but two of the cases. The third bank robbery occurred in El Toro.

The Comfort Inn in Stanton also sacked the house, after handcuffing one man and tying up the four others, Santa Ana Police Lt Bob Chavez said. Juan Valdovinas, 21, who was handcuffed, also was hit over the head with a pistol when he struggled with one of the suspects, Chavez said. He suffered minor injuries but required no treatment The other two men and two women in the residence had their hands and feet tied with duct tape as the suspects ransacked the home, taking an estimated $10,000 in gold jewelry, cash and miscellaneous valuables, police said. After the suspects left, the five adults were freed by an 11-year-old boy who had hidden behind a sofa during the robbery, Chavez said. In Westminster, the manager of the Boardwalk tavern in the 6700 block of Westminster Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint at 7:15 a.m.

as he departed with the weekend receipts, Westminster Police Sgt Larry Russell said. The manager was approached by two gun-wielding men who ordered him to hand over about $2,000 in cash receipts, Russell said. In Stanton, the Comfort Inn in the 11600 block of Beach Boulevard reportedly was robbed Monday, Orange County communications dispatchers said. However, Stanton police did not return repeated calls Monday to provide any details of the crime. And in Santa Ana at 8 a.m..

two gunmen burst into an unlocked home in the 1200 block of Pine Street and ran Whitman said. After taking an undetermined amount, the bandit fled. At 2:05 p.m. in El Toro, a man in his late 20s entered the Bank of America branch in the 23800 block of El Toro Road and demanded money, Sheriffs Lt Richard J. Olson said.

The suspect fled after taking an undetermined amount of money. Olson said the man did not display a weapon. It was unknown whether the robber handed the teller a note. FBI agents were called in to help investigate the bank robberies, which have been occurring at an almost daily clip in recent weeks. The county has logged about 330 bank holdups this year, compared to less than 300 at the same time last year, according to Wylie Cox, FBI supervising agent in Santa Ana.

was robbed, as was the Boardwalk tavern in Westminster. In Santa Ana, the six occupants of a private residence were robbed of $10,000 in valuables. In Garden Grove, the first bank holdup was at the First Interstate branch in the 9900 block of Chapman Avenue, where a man in his late 20s, wearing a blue shirt and hat, entered the establishment at 11:04 a.m. and handed a teller a note demanding money, Whitman said. The man, who did not display a weapon, ran out the front door after taking an undetermined amount of cash and fled west on Chapman.

At 11:23 a.m., a man about 30 entered the First Interstate branch in the 12500 block of Valley View Street, drew a pistol and demanded money from a teller, HP HALFWAY: Sentences to Be Served in Motel GLENN KOENIG Loa Angeles Times Members of Beyond War get their message across at Saddleback Community College's Day for Peace rally Monday. PEACE: '80s-Style Campus Rally Was Pretty Peaceful Continued from Page 1 ed by Orange County Halfway House, for about two years. As at most halfway houses, the prisoners have been serving the last few weeks of their sentences while being re-acclimated to a community environment Under that program, which will be discontinued, as many as 40 inmates have been housed at the motel. Most are completing sentences for nonviolent misdemeanors. County officials say the new program, under which some inmates will be assigned to serve their full sentences at the motel, is unique in California.

Halfway House Inc. will be responsible for maintaining the housing for the program and for monitoring the compliance of each inmate with the specific rules of his or her work-furlough sentence. The overall operation will be supervised by the county Probation Department. 'Never Had Any Problems' Castellaw, Buena Park officials and representatives of both the motel and Halfway House said they have received no complaints about the halfway house at the motel and expect none about the new program. "Half of the people don't even know it's here," said Al Hoffman, resident manager of the motel.

"For two years, we've never had any problems." Madeleine Wakamatsu, director of programs for Halfway House, said the regular motel units draw more police attention than the rooms used by the county. "The city has not objected, and there haven't been any complaints from the community," Wakamatsu said. According to a county fact sheet, it will be cheaper to house the 80 inmates in Buena Park than it would be to keep them at the Musick jail. The current annual cost for the 80 prisoners is $897,608, and the bill for the new program will be $851,676, the report said. Until now, all of the roughly 150 prisoners participating in the work-furlough program have been housed at the Musick jail.

But Sheriffs Department records show that Musick, like most county jail facilities, is far over its state-rated capacity, with about 1,000 male inmates. There will be a small effect on the jail population. But Sheriff's Lt. Richard J. Olson said the program will not relieve the most critical jail overcrowding problem a shortage of maximum-security beds.

In response to court orders aimed at reducing jail overcrowding in Orange County, the Sheriffs Department has implemented a cite-and-release program under which many people arrested for misdemeanor crimes are no longer jailed while they await trial. It is possible that the motel program, by opening up some space in the jail, could have a small effect on the cite-and-release program, Olson said. Continued from Page 3 and interest was mild. "I'm not in a rallying mode at the moment," said Michael Evans, 23, a communications major in trendy sunglasses and Bermuda shorts, lounging on a lunch table near the speakers. "Not a lot of people turn out for these things," said George Ed-mondson, 23, bass player for Divine Weeks, a popular Los Angeles rock band.

"We're so numb, they've all made us believe we can't do anything about it." Observers had little response to Jeanne Giordono, 70, of the Farm. Workers Union, who asked them to boycott grapes as a protest to the use of pesticides, or to a member of the Birch Society who suggested that the goal of disarmament was to build a powerful United Nations force with nuclear weapons. "I would never support this, never," said Lisa Wetmore, 23, an anthropology student waving a Birch Society handout that read: "We believe that the Communists seek to drive their slaves and themselves along exactly the opposite and downward direction, to the Satanic debasement of both man classes are also being conducted. "Aha! A conflict," college president Constance Carroll said. Wearing a Beyond War membership button, she lamented Monday's low turnout.

"It's like that all over the country," she said. "Most faculty members were active in the '60s. In the past 10 years, students are not as involved in world issues." Instructor Merrifield said students are not apathetic. "It's faculty. Apathetic faculty make apathetic students.

"I practice what I teach." and his universe." A young woman in long hair and jeans engaged in a friendly discussion with Bryan Ellison, 20, a UCI biology student who heads the five-member New Americans Club, the student affiliate of the Birch Society. "I object to anti-Soviet propaganda," she said. "Their country should be run the way they want. They're not monsters." But the only argument surfaced when a peace activist and Merri-field disagreed over whether the rally should have been held when it was: during the noon hour when ORPHANS: Survivors of Family Violence Are Offered Amnesty Ezell several months ago but had received a negative response. She then wrote a letter to U.S.

Sen. Pete Wilson, who "helped me get this thing started." "Can you imagine a 13-year-old boy opening a family closet and finding his mother and father dead? You would have to have a heart of stone not to feel for these children," Thompson said. Jesus, Esau, Denny and Tommy received temporary amnesty cards Monday. They will be called for a second interview within 18 months, and could be given permanent alien status within two years. Permanent aliens can apply for U.S.

citizenship after five years, Gustaf-son said. The four Carrillo children were SUIT: Jury Awards $256,000 Continued from Page 3 son said. William G. Steiner, Orangewood Foundation executive director, said it was the work of Kathryn Thompson, who is on the foundation's board of directors and who wrote letters to elected officials and immigration officials on behalf of the Carrillo children. Thompson said she first wrote to guided through the amnesty process by Ezell, as other immigrants inside the INS office in Santa Ana quietly stared and a media entourage documented each Orangewood officials have raised more than $15,000 for the children in a trust established to help with educational costs and immigration application fees, Steiner said.

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Jury foreman Johnson said that Volpe's testimony hurt the defense much more than George's. "Mr. Volpe came across as a relentless, hard-pursuing individual who stepped on some people," Johnson said. Lawyers for KDOC-TV said they will probably appeal the jury's verdict. Conobre, who lives in Anaheim with his wife, Gerri, said he is working part time now in video sales.

DIRECT Continued from Page 1 for the jury was not based on anything that really happened," Brack said. "She characterized people in a way that wasn't true; then the verdict was based on those characterizations." But Moore had some words of her own for KDOC-TV: "I think this is a message that the community is not going to condone conduct like this from management. You can't bully someone and get away with it anymore." Moore said she had offered to settle the lawsuit before trial for $150,000, but the station refused. One juror congratulated Moore afterward and told her, "We thought this was the sort of thing where nothing had to come to court if it had been handled right. It was just bad management." Conobre joined KDOC-TV-Channel 56 when it first opened as the county's only commercial TV station in 1982.

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