He would not say specifically how Phillips and Matasareanu met. It appears that Glendale were shouting these guys names loud and clear to anyone who would listen, but both RHD and FBI gave the intelligence little to no concern. Mortgage broker Larry Newfield said that when he told Phillips he was going to police, Phillips said, Ill kill you.. In 1990 father and son became distant in a dispute over education and the fathers belief Emil had married too early. The clock ticked relentlessly. Walter was not a happy man, there had been substantial damage to his property (which exists to this day, the hole that the V100 bulldozed through his rear wall has been left and turned into a vehicle entry), he was waiting to hear back from the city and was upset that nobody so far had been in contact. Phillips was a mess, his face swollen and contorted from being laid on his left side on the Archwood dirt median for twelve hours, fluids had pooled in the lowest points of his body and left his blood soaked face frozen in a grimace, his mouth half open baring blood stained teeth. More than 200 police officers were involved in the gun battle with Matasareanu and his partner, Larry Phillips, after they robbed a bank branch in North Hollywood on February 28. . The FBI has not yet identified the two men, though Matasreanu's mother confirmed her 30-year-old son was one of the men killed. Neighbours would later remember them as a quiet family who were always up and out of the house early and who seemed to have a vast fleet of vehicles. Details: Jeanette Federico is the wife of serial bank robber Larry Phillips Jr.. It was in fact the name of Sharon Santos' brother, an old friend of Larry's and the person who had introduced Larry and Sharon at an ice rink in Denver back in the day. Copyright 1997 by United Press International. That would change dramatically as the autopsy progressed. The interior of the Bank of America branch the Monday morning after the shootout. Investigators said today (Tuesday) they are looking for Jeanette Theresa Federico, who is believed to be the wife of Larry Phillips Jr. Phillips was killed along with Emil Matasareanu after they robbed a Bank of America branch Feb. 28. On April 2nd, 1925 nineteen year old Elva Arlene Pullen married twenty-four year old Earl Robert Phillips of 2121 Avenue F, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. That plan, however, was foiled Friday largely because an LAPD officer spotted the gunmen in full body armor carrying automatic weapons into a Bank of America branch. An engineer by training and a political dissident who had been jailed, he pushed the boy in school. On Friday two men clad in ski masks and neck-to-ankle Kevlar armor stormed a Bank of America in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood toting an arsenal of guns and firing with impunity. LAPD spokesman Jason Lee said all three weapons resemble the AK-47 and that it is illegal to possess any of these rifles in California. Sergeant Gomez is the last of three SWAT officers who directly engaged in a close-combat gun battle with suspect Emil Matasareanu. Zboravan says he testified in that trial. One entry of the wound count potentially came post mortem when Phillips was downed on Archwood and still under a hail of police gunfire (the right tricep wound). During an interview Sunday in his cramped Pasadena apartment, Viorel Matasareanu recalled playing soccer with the boy and teaching him math. Then in what can only be described in one of the most stunning pieces police ingenuity ever recorded they managed to get on to Emil's final property. . Dr. Jorge O. Montes, who would receive an award, risked his life to treat the wounded cops. Real Name: Jeanette Theresa Federico Nicknames: Jean Malta, Jeanette Phillips Location: Los Angeles, California Date: February 28, 1997 Bio Occupation: Unrevealed Date of Birth: August 7, 1968 Height: 5'3" Weight: 130 pounds Marital Status: Widowed Characteristics: Caucasian female with brown hair and brown eyes. ---. If you wish to read more on this particular myth being dispelled then head over to that page. ", VIDEO: Sgt. We only knew what happened when we saw it on the news.". In that case, Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. served less than four months in jail after striking a plea bargain that cut a conspiracy and weapons case to a handful of misdemeanors. Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu opened fire on cops and bystanders after robbing a Bank of America in North Hollywood. Sunday's session would only be attended by two RHD detectives, and only one of those had been present on the Saturday session. ", "Never I heard that he fight with someone," Viorel Matasareanu, 77, said yesterday of his son, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, whom he brought with him from Romania. The FBI has not yet identified the two men, though Matasreanus mother confirmed her 30-year-old son was one of the men killed. Also found in the 1993 red Thunderbird were police scanners, bulletproof vests, a stop watch, gloves, sunglasses, wigs, ski masks and other clothing. But we all have families to go home to.". He had brain surgery months before his death and was estranged from a wife and two kids. The truth appears to have been vastly different; the business was all but abandoned, residing in an unfinished basement at the East Orange Grove Boulevard address and consisting of nothing more than a few boxes of long forgotten parts and with, as far as we can make out, no 'employees' bar himself, and as a cherry to top the cake One must ask the question, why such an increase on the projected earnings? Larry was a pretty gifted kid; thats all I can say. Police said the gunmen Friday were suspected of being what some media call the ``shoot em up bandits, a duo that held up at least two suburban banks last year while dressed for combat and terrorizing customers by firing shots into ceilings or a vault. On initial inspection the property's location seems nothing special, but a closer look sees that it is sited on a road with only one access point, and the house has a commanding view of the road that anybody approaching 'his' street would have to take to get near the house. Matasareanu, 27, and Phillips, 31, were believed to have pulled off a number of earlier bank heists in the area. She said health authorities forced Matasareanu out of the home. His known life of crime began with a 1989 petty theft of $400 in merchandise from the Alhambra Sears. Comparison of the bank's exterior a couple days apart. Beretta 92F, det vapen som anvndes av Phillips. There had been many high profile shootouts with police in California over the years yet rarely had there been one where responding officers had been so utterly at the mercy of the assailants. Because the timing of all three robberies came just after large deliveries of cash, one source said, "It's obvious these guys did their homework.". The final entry regarding Phillips autopsy is one I have wrestled with for a long time, a matter of writing it firmly enough to show what we can see and have been told, yet delicately enough to not appear accusatory. The two "bad guys" were Larry Phillips Jr, 26, and Emil Mtsreanu, aged 30. ``He said, `I cant take it any more, this life. He did everything to succeed. The home was closed for good when it failed to meet fire safety specifications. The boys mother, Dorothy Clay, served 10 years for drug possession, and while in prison stabbed a guard with a shank, he said. Sources disclosed that the FBI, even before Friday's incident, had been looking into the possibility that the two extraordinarily lucrative bank robberies in the San Fernando Valley last May were the work of an organized group with connections to political or terroristic groups. They say she has been known to frequent Southern California's San Gabriel Valley and has ties in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. 1997 North Hollywood Shootout Autopsy report on Larry Phillips Jr. & Emil Matasareanu. Matasareanu, 30, a Romanian emigre, and his alleged accomplice, Larry Eugene Phillips, 26, died in a gunfight Friday after a botched Bank of America holdup. PHOTOS: North Hollywood shootout 20th anniversary - a look at the past and present. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out: Directed by Yves Simoneau. Tim McBride. The robbers were armed with. Plink plink. ``The way they struck and the way they handled their weapons, one would have to expect that they got some training somewhere, said Los Angeles Police Cmdr. They looked like zombies, no emotion. Outside of the hive of activity that was the investigation into these two men, back in the public realm the previous day's chaos was on everybody's lips. Viorel Matasareanu and his son became distant in 1990 in a dispute over education and the father's belief that Emil had married too early. She would later pose next to the bullet ridden passenger door of Sgt Haynes' cruiser. Before he left [in 1996], he said, I cant find [her]. But in the time it took them to place the money on a cart and leave the building, the LAPD had surrounded the bank, and the SWAT team was on its way. Gomez also has a son, Steve, who was unable to attend because he is currently serving in the United States Navy. The story of her Labrador, D.O.G, who was wounded in the muzzle during the heated gun battle was also published. With that both women parted ways, and to this day appear to have never crossed paths again. Forty nine miles to the southeast back at the Pepperdale Drive address a second search was conducted and this time bore more troubling fruit. She may have dyed her hair blonde. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said today (Thursday) that Emil Matasareanu was downed by 29 bullets, including a deep wound to his thigh that caused him to bleed to death. Getaway vehicle rendered useless, holed, its windows blown out, all four tires flat, in a residential area of North Hollywood three blocks away from where his partner has just died, Matasareanu attempts to carjack a new ride, a yellow 1963 Jeep Gladiator pickup truck. Matasareanu's autopsy would be conducted over both days of that weekend. On Tuesday, officers found a mentally disabled woman, covered in urine and feces, locked in a dark room at a Pasadena business owned by Emil Matasareanu and his mother, Valerie Nicolescu. And he quoted from Barry Minkow, the whiz-kid founder of ZZZZ Best Co., later convicted of fraud, on the thrill of grabbing a handful of $100 bills and heading out for the day in his Ferrari to spend them. "Our car started taking rounds. Dean Haynes, and was perpetuated by the media. Matasareanu, a 1977 immigrant who became a naturalized citizen in 1988, was just beginning to see his American dream crumble. Were they washing stolen money through the business? Matasareanu's body would be formally identified by a family friend, not his wife, not his mother, a family friend. But, after a week of intense news media hypothesizing on the pairs possible right-wing ideological motives, his portrayal helps make sense of the violent evolution of two sometimes abusive misfits whose past scrapes with the law yielded scant foreshadowing of the ruthless hail of machine-gun fire they would unleash in their last moments. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He had told his father he was moving back to Denver, probably in the coming April, when his father gave him the wise mans nod and told him to be careful Jr responded 'I might be dead by then'. Emils mother, Valerie Nicolescu, said she hadnt spoken to him since Christmas. Date: February 28, 1997. Deputy District Attorney James Grodin, who supervised the prosecution of the case, said he initially charged them with conspiracy to commit robbery, but had to settle for several less-serious weapons charges because he lacked evidence to prove a conspiracy. Jeanette would wait a little longer, her situation was a little more complex, but Monday March 3rd was the last day she paid rent on the Anaheim property. Sr would give the detectives a few leads to go on but ultimately he gave up nothing extraordinarily revealing about his son. In 1991, Phillips was arrested by Orange police after a mortgage broker reported discovering that deeds of trust he bought from Phillips were forged. Mayo was removed to Huntington Memorial Hospital for evaluation, and Pasadena police conducted only a brief interview with Nicolescu, choosing to label her only as a 'possible suspect' in an illegal board and care establishment. The next year the service was closed because of an allegation made. But most were from .38 revolvers or 9 mm pistols pitted against an arsenal of high-capacity AK-47s and automatic rifles. The next year the service was closed because of an allegation made that Matasareanu abused one of the six residents. Mayo who had been moved to the property at the beginning of February, had allegedly been left alone, locked in a single dark room within the property for at least the previous week during which time she had had no access to her medicines or food. Very quickly the two May 1996 jobs of Winnetka and Van Nuys were attributed to the two bodies that had lain in the streets of North Hollywood; and eleven miles away certain entities within Glendale Police Department were absolutely sure that the two men who had gained worldwide notoriety earlier the previous morning were the same men they had sat in their interview rooms nearly three and a half years ago. In anguished recollections, the brother characterized Phillips as a secretive, controlling figure who manipulated almost every aspect of Matasareanus life. Jeanette Federico, Larry's widow, had seen the shootout on the news. Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu shot at everything in their path including police, bystanders, and a news helicopter in an attempt to get away. LAPD Officer James Zboravan was two months and eight days out of the police academy when he faced a barrage of machine-gun fire, shot and wounded a bank robber and dove across unarmored officers to shield them with his bulletproof vest. Matasareanu and his wife and young son were living with Nicolescu and running a home-care service for the mentally disabled. "It sounded like a war, like death," said Lopez, 58, who is now retired. It has never been proven but could seem to be a possibility; however the first robbery tentatively attributed to this pair was not until July 1993 so a further question must be asked: Were they active much earlier than ever believed? They had Kalashnikov rifles filled. The former Altadena residents had once served a brief stint in jail for possessing what Glendale police said was virtually a bank-robbery kit. At 9.16am, after months of preparation, the pair entered the North Hollywood Bank of America branch. The business had never taken off in any form, stories of Matasareanu schlepping his accounting software for budget prices whilst dressed in flip flops and baggy sweat pants have been given to us first hand. Eleven officers were wounded, but none killed. On the morning of the robbery, officials believe they took phenobarbital to help control their nerves. It's not a macho thing. Even Matasareanus choice of a wife fell under Phillips influence, he said. All Rights Reserved |. For his trouble, he later suffered nightmares and a nervous tic in one eye. He said he had lost his business. The younger Matasreanu had difficulty realizing his vision of the American dream. When his gun jammed and he was no longer able to advance, he shot himself. He dismissed as a motive the financial problems of Matasareanu, whose immigrant mother--a defector from the Romanian state orchestra--saw her state board-and-care license revoked because of alleged patient neglect and fire violations and who had been dogged by tax liens in recent years. West Harriet St and West Loma Alta Drive also in Altadena. The windows shattered. A cache of weapons was also discovered. According to the Coroner's report Phillips had nineteen firearms related wounds, inflicted by eleven separate gunshot strikes. But he never appeared for sentencing and remained a fugitive. The bank was expected. She may have dyed her hair blonde. Currently, she is only wanted for questioning. Who were these men? Everything he did was completely thought out. Back in Los Angeles Detective Mitch Robbins was interviewed regarding how exactly his licence plate came to be affixed to the back of the bandit Chevrolet a week earlier. But most police officers remained calm, despite ineffective weapons, faulty radios and a command post relocated four times. "It sounded like they were shooting at the house. Saturday gave way into Sunday and the newspaper columns were understandably still full of this story, as people unfolded the Times and the Daily news over their breakfast they would be greeted with vivid photographs taken by Gene Blevins, Mike Meadows, Carolyn Cole and various other photographers. Reaching further back to 1993 RHD found a takeover conducted by three men of an armoured car in Littleton, Colorado; an area very close to Phillips 'home turf' and the town that would become tragically famous only two short years later for the massacre at Columbine High School. "There was no time to be scared. For Matasareanu and Phillips, suspected of pulling off a number of sophisticated bank heists, the North Hollywood robbery was to be their biggest yet. We have pea shooters compared to what these guys have.". He recalled the detective saying of the AK-47 nightmare, "I served in Vietnam. Mobster Jimmy the Gent Burke, who according to published reports was the long-suspected architect of the crime, died last year without ever having been charged. Although never charged with real estate fraud, a civil action later ended in a judgment ordering Phillips to pay nearly $140,000 in principal, interest and court costs to two title companies. That Larry Phillips Jr had sustained a gunshot wound to his forehead. (213) 251-4554, 20 years after the North Hollywood shootout, echoes of the terror remain, Sgt. He was driving down the road with his wife and John Chase, an accomplice, in the car, along with several weapons, when he passed a car of FBI agents going the other way. The house was, at the time, the largest on the street and it was to be Emil's final home. Emil Decebal Mtsreanu era decis s lupte pn moare. No evidence of such a link had materialized by Sunday, he said. On Friday two men clad in ski masks and neck-to-ankle Kevlar armor stormed a Bank of America branch in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood, toting an arsenal of guns. His ideal was the 1978 New York Lufthansa Airlines heist in which six ski-masked gunmen crept into a cargo building before dawn and escaped with $5.8 million. But as the pair lumbered from their Chevrolet Celebrity sedan, they were spotted by LAPD Officers Loren Farrell and Martin Perello, who were on patrol and called in for backup for a possible robbery. Preceding . For his valor, he would receive an award from the county. "If you look at the civilians who were injured, the policemen who were injured, the cars that were destroyed, it was amazing that nobody died. Recently, after the first of a series of bank robberies that authorities believe Phillips and Matasareanu committed, his fortunes showed some improvement: Matasareanu and his wife rented a sprawling multilevel home in Rowland Heights. "We did a great job," said David Fryar, director of the nonprofit museum. Investigators are asking anyone with information on Federico to call robbery-homicide detectives at 213-485-0780 or 213-485-2504. . Before becoming a full-time bank robber, he began suffering from seizures. He had a wife and two children. Laid out on his back with his head turned to the left, his Galco shoulder holster was removed; followed by his ammunition carrying vest revealing the blood and sweat soaked grey Honors T-shirt that covered his body armor. Because it remained unchecked and unchallenged it STILL endures to this day. Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, 30, and Larry Eugene Phillips Jr., 26, were arrested in October 1993 after a routine traffic stop in Glendale, Calif., led to the discovery of a cache of weapons and . Last Updated September 7, 2016 at 6:56 AM EDT (6 years ago) Request Update Get E-Mail Alerts Entries (337) Calendar Events Related (0) Many miles away across the vast landscape of LA Emil's mother, Valerie Nicolescu, gave a rare public interview and gave a curious quote stating 'my son was in with a bad crowd'. For 44 thunderous minutes, they marched through a neighborhood under siege, spraying stores, homes and cars with 1,100 armor-piercing bullets, wounding 11 police officers and six bystanders. I have decided to remove it from this portion of the text and it can be found on the Myths page as it becomes a rather in depth study of Phenobarbital which we don't have the space for here. One party was a serving police officer at the scene of Phillips body; the other was a family member who visited Phillips body at North Mission Road. That address does not exist today; the land parcel and those surrounding it were restructured sometime around 1956. On the morning of February 28, 1997, two heavily armed men wearing body armor burst into a Bank of America branch, took a little more than $300,000 and fired their way out. He says to me that he wants to die. "After everything was over, I saw the bullet holes in my kiosk, and my arms started to swell," Haro, now retired and in ill health, told the Daily News a decade ago. ", Like the scars still left by the hail of bullets across North Hollywood, the gunbattle would transform the Los Angeles Police Department, boosting its reputation after the Rodney King Jr. debacle, while altering its response to what became known from then on as "an active shooting situation. He was born under an alias, the brother said. Not a single mention of a forehead wound. North of the bank across Archwood Street, bullets drilled through the stucco of Baskin-Robbins, piercing ice cream counters above the pistachio almond bucket, as well as an ice cream cake in a now patched-up freezer. An in-depth discussion on this issue, which needs to be finally understood and eradicated from this event can be found on our 'Myths' page here. Phillips had taken on a lifestyle of quiet paranoia, living under aliases, multiple identities, driver's licences, at least five SSN's, and in the infancy of cellular telephones it was believed that he had stuck to the old and tested pager for remote contact method, although that may not have been the whole truth as we shall later discover. One of two bank robbers who perpetrated the infamous Bank of America robbery on February 28, 1997. All the while, Phillips brother said, he was hardening with resentment that seethed in him when they drove through wealthy neighborhoods. Its owner, Fred Abdo, was headed to work when he saw the bandits, in dark clothing and ski masks. Larry Phillips was a slightly different matter; two addresses popped up immediately. Records show that young Phillips went on to leave a dizzying web of aliases and nonexistent addresses in an apparent effort to deflect anyone looking for him. Twenty years ago today, on Feb. 28, 1997, two men armed with fully automatic weapons and clad in heavy body armor did more than rob the Bank of America at 6600 Laurel Canyon Blvd. The pair, drawn together by a love of weight-lifting and weapons, had planned for months, assembling the body armor and reinforcing it over vital organs. Yet within that reporting, and a lot of it was exceptional work, certain viewpoints and false information was allowed to exist. This is where the trail for us goes cold on this property, we can find no reference to any law enforcement visit, any search warrant. On October 15, 1997, plaintiff Valeria Nicolescu Matasareanu, a citizen proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed a civil rights complaint, under 42 U.S.C. It was also noted that an old muscle car bearing the licence plate 1EMIL1 was parked at the rear of the property and covered with a tarpaulin. But while beating a retreat, he took a bullet in the knee and collapsed in the strip mall driveway. A week had passed since the robbery and abortive escape attempt. Details of the North Hollywood shootout belong in that article. Interestingly this vehicle was never seized under Federal Asset Forfeiture. The entire country witnessed the raging gun battle that lasted half an hour, and left ten police officers and six civilians wounded. Other than that scene, the only known forewarning of the deadly turn in the two mens friendship was their 1993 arrest for possession of illegal automatic rifles after a Glendale police officer stopped them for speeding. The FBILA Bank Squad received information that Matasareanu had been a patron at a Northridge gun store, where he was well known for purchasing 7.62x39mm ammunition. Nonetheless, he pursued real estate illegally, using sophisticated scams and sometimes bald threats, authorities and those who did business with him allege. Phillips, he said, was motivated by money and control: He wanted to live the American dream. She was charged with custodial interference as a result of an incident that had occurred in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Remnants of Emil's previous past-times. All rights reserved. He also gave his father $500 in cash, and would later mail him an additional $400. The centre of the chest of his T-shirt bore a ragged hole, a reminder to anyone who looked of just how close Officer Richard Zielinksi's shot could have come to ending Friday's chaos. Dressed in new Nikes and with the ever present Rolex on his wrist and a wallet full of cash he appeared affluent and content. So far, investigators have released few details about the pair. Unable to start the Jeep however, he soon finds himself engaged in a fresh . ". A darker tone to the conversation ensued though. The FBI has not yet identified the two men, though Matasareanu's mother confirmed that her 30-year-old son was one of the men killed. For their heroism, 19 officers would receive medals of valor.Advertisement, One seriously wounded officer who later quit the force to become a minister said: "I heard the devil; he told me: 'You're gonna die, you're gonna die.' Ben Smith, the agent who wrote him a new policy just a month before the North Hollywood robbery, was struck by his animosity toward what he called the system.. If the event was bigger and more complex then maybe there should be something about it here, but barring that then at most it should note he was one of the two involved. Police in suburban Glendale said the robbers were the same men arrested there in 1993 in a car full of high-powered weapons, smoke bombs and disguises. Like drugged. Emil Matasareanu's DUNS report about his business was returned, and it gave investigators a subtle glimpse into the kind of man they were investigating. A Pasadena police department report said Mayo's room had a nauseating odour of faeces and urine, with only a bucket being present to serve ablutionary needs. It would later be learned that $10,000 in cash had been confiscated from the house, whether the box and the cash were linked is unknown. Marital Status: Widowed . "I can't forget that day," said Kazanchyan, now 49. A few days after the shootout, some detectives asked how he had failed to notice his sons flamboyant prosperity. Together, they lived with his mother in a home where she ran a "home care service for the mentally disabled." But after a neighbor alleged that Matasareanu abused one of the residents under her care, his mother kicked him out. They had Kalashnikov rifles filled. These are errant police rounds from during the SWAT engagement with Matasareanu. Police search the trunk of the 1995 Buick Century found in the Granada Hills safehouse. In Phillips case his residence would not be identified until some weeks later when his wife, Jeanette Federico, finally surrendered herself in Colorado. Prosecutors have said they were worried she might flee. 2009-2021 Bears in the Beehive. The brother, who asked that his name be withheld, described scary outings in which Phillips would drive him through the streets of wealthy neighborhoods and then park outside the homes of the well-known to watch them come and go, visualizing himself in their places. 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