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News Briefs
FBI offers reward
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is offering a $35,000 reward for help identifying a group of men thought to be responsible for as many as 20 bank robberies in the Bay Area, including several cases in Sunnyvale.
Special Agent Bruce Gephardt said the armed robbery of a Fremont Bank of America last week was thought to be the latest in a string of robberies by a group of white, black, and Hispanic men in their mid-20s.
Gephardt said the men are also thought responsible for a slew of robberies since December 1999 in San Francisco, San Leandro, Sunnyvale, Fremont, Mountain View, Cupertino, San Jose, Novato, El Cerrito, and possibly Vallejo.
The men, all of average builds, are consider well-armed and very dangerous. Anyone coming into contact with them should call the local police or the FBI.
The suspects are believed to have been involved in the Feb. 14 robbery of Union Bank on Arques Avenue, the Feb. 24 robbery of Bank of America, also on Arques, and the Feb. 28 and April 21 robberies of Bay View Bank on Stevens Creek Boulevard.
Daycares honored
In concert with National Child Care Providers Appreciation Day, Mayor Pat Vorreiter recently presented two awards. She gave a proclamation to Wilma Gold, representing the local affiliate of the
National Association for the Education of Young Children. She also present the Mayor's Child Care Innovation Award to Jim and Gerlinde Daugherty of Gerlinde's Family Day Care which was honored by the mayor for maintaining the highest standards of nutrition and cleanliness in a loving, warm, and nurturing environment.
Sunnyvale invites residents to attend a public input meeting regarding the addition of a new $11 million senior center at the Sunnyvale Community Center. The meeting is tonight at 7:00 p.m.. in the Neighborhood Room at the Community Center at 550 E. Remington Dr. For more information, call John Hopkins, the Project Coordinator at 408.730.7272.
Crime rate places Sunnyvale in top five
The FBI Released its Crime Index for 1999 on May 7. Among cities with populations 100,000 and over, Sunnyvale had the fifth-fewest reported crimes, Sunnyvale Police spokesman Captain Chuck Eaneff said. He said the city consistently places in the top 10 on the annual list. He credited the force's focus on prevention coupled with its aggressive investigations for the result.
The list totals the number of murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, larcenies, vehicle thefts, and arson attacks. It weighs each type of crime equally.
Flanagin resignation
Lee Flanagin will resign from the Planning Commission effective July 1, 2000. In a letter to council, Flanagin said the expensive real estate market in Sunnyvale forced him and his wife to go elsewhere to live.
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