Police nab 3 of 4 robbery suspects
An intensive manhunt at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View on Monday netted three of four suspects believed to have participated in an armed robbery of a Sunnyvale supermarket early that morning.
A fourth man arrested in connection with the robbery was released after investigators cleared him of any involvement, said Public Safety Capt. Tom Piatanesi.
The three men in custody, who do not live in Sunnyvale, were booked on conspiracy, resisting arrest and suspicion of robbing the Safeway supermarket at Hollenbeck and Homestead roads at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 15.
Public Safety officers were the first on the scene when an unidenti-fied man called police from the supermarket around 1:10 a.m. to report it was being robbed at gunpoint by four men, Piatanesi said.
Police chased the suspects, who were driving a black Jeep Cherokee, down state Highway 85 and onto southbound state Highway 101 at speeds up to 100 mph, police said. The suspects exited onto Shoreline Boulevard and ditched the jeep near the amphitheater entrance.
Officers from more than two-dozen police agencies searched a 600-acre area until mid-afternoon, when they had arrested three of four suspects. Police are still looking for the fourth suspect, who has not been identified, Piatanesi said.
Hospital district names interim CEO
El Camino Hospital District Board on Jan. 3 appointed Richard Warren as the district's interim chief executive officer. Warren is a retired CEO of Washing-ton Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont.
His appointment is the first of several steps planned by the publicly elected district board in connection with its bid to regain control over the operations of the financially troubled El Camino Hospital.
The district filed a lawsuit against Camino Healthcare in October to void the 1992 transfer of the hospital from a public to a private, nonprofit corporation.
"We must prepare for any outcome," said Dr. Paul Hoar, board president. "Mr. Warren will advise the board on health-care manage-ment issues as our discussions with Camino Healthcare continue, and prepare to resume management responsibility in the event that hospital operations are returned to the district, as we anticipate."
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, January 17, 1996
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