Sign in to add some. On February 28, 1997, at 9:15 AM, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr, walked into a Bank of America in Van Nuys, California on Laurel Canyon Boulevard not far from the Disney, Universal and Warner. His body on the gurney cut a very different figure from that of his cohort. Matasareanu, he said, lacked the intelligence and daring to lead the pairs enterprise. You cant imagine how manipulative my brother was, he said. Matasareanu, driving a leased 1995 Lincoln Town Car without insurance, got a speeding ticket on his way home from Las Vegas. The brother said Phillips was so secretive and so effectively compartmentalized his life that associates in his real estate scams probably were not even aware of his budding relationship with Matasareanu, a social misfit and fellow gun lover he met about 1989. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ The parents of a bandit gunned down by police during a botched bank robbery say their son had an ``attitude problem and that his brazen assault was ``like suicide., ``Never I heard that he fight with someone, Viorel Matasareanu, 77, said Sunday of his son Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, who he had brought with him from their native Romania. He was an escapee from Colorado State Reformatory when Larry Jr. was born, and gave the boy his first false name, Warfel. 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'. Wednesday dawned and the investigation continued apace, gathering new information on both men. LaChasse will join Los Angeles and federal officials today at the North Hollywood police station for a 20th anniversary tribute in honor those who stopped the North Hollywood bank bandits. The bodies of Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mtsreanu, perpetrators of the North Hollywood shootout of 1997. i aa s-a i ntmplat. It's not a macho thing. 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. He cant take it any more. 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. Valerie Nicolescu said her son was a man haunted by demons. The story of her Labrador, D.O.G, who was wounded in the muzzle during the heated gun battle was also published. Of their nearly 4,000 rounds of ammo, many were armor-piercing. He bled to death while police, concerned about reports of a third masked gunman, searched the area. 1983, against Willie Williams, the City of Los Angeles (" defendant City" ), and 50 unknown members of the Los Angeles Police Department (collectively " defendants" ). He just said to me that he wanted to die. Matasareanu's final house (2015). No evidence of such a link had materialized by Sunday, he said. The 2026 N. Sinaloa address was Emil's mother's house at the time. A cache of weapons was also discovered. He said, All you guys are alike, the system is all screwed up, Smith said. 23 West Harriet St., Altadena, CA 244 West Loma, Altadena, CA A darker tone to the conversation ensued though. Mid-morning and LAPD executed a search warrant on the Matasareanu's business address. "It wasn't my time. Shoot me in the head. They looked like zombies, no emotion. Tucked away on Ludlow Street in the far north of the San Fernando Valley in Granada Hills on a quiet street sat an unassuming house, rented by Matasareanu under the name of Michael Dilbek in April 1996. The discovery of this address must have come late in the day, as the search warrant for it was slated to be executed the following day. When Emil had left DeVry University in 1987 with his electrical engineering degree in hand he had gone straight to building a business. Detectives and officer taking cover behind bullet-riddled black and white and detective vehicles. 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. Sr would give the detectives a few leads to go on but ultimately he gave up nothing extraordinarily revealing about his son. A penultimate entry regarding the autopsy that should be here is that of his toxicology screen, what exactly had he ingested? One of two bank robbers who perpetrated the infamous Bank of America robbery on February 28, 1997. Those folk who wanted to come see the place where this event had happened, to poke their fingers in the bullet holes, hunt for stray casings and touch the places where these men had fallen. Its owner, Fred Abdo, was headed to work when he saw the bandits, in dark clothing and ski masks. The bullets then whizzed through Mr. Jiffy's Pizza, narrowly missing a driver before bouncing off a warming oven. Who's the doctor? The last eight months had brought a rash of troubles to Emil. 2:97-cv-02445 District Judge Christina A. Snyder, presiding No tags have been applied so far. . Tim McBride. Matasareanu was from Romania, and in 1993, he brought his wife and son to the U.S. as well. 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. The detectives who went to deliver the next of kin notification were met by his mother, whose anguished screams could be heard outside in the road when she was informed of her son's death. Investigative teams were now starting to peel back the lid on both men's lives, but more so on Matasareanu than Phillips. Contributing to this story were Times staff writers Alan Abrahamson, Abigail Goldman, Peter Y. Hong, Greg Krikorian, Matt Lait, Beth Shuster and Martha L. Willman, and correspondents Richard Winton and John Cox. In that case, Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. served less than four months in jail after striking case a plea bargain that cut a conspiracy and weapons case to a handful of misdemeanors. He decided to go about it the wrong way.. A comprehensive look at the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout detailing the lives and crimes of Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu Tradesmen had worked all over the weekend patching the holes and damage, come Monday morning the only change to be noticed, apart from the cameras of the media, was the eight security personnel as opposed to the usual two. Shortly after she turned herself in, she led authorities to a home that she and Larry shared in Anaheim Hills. Somehow, it appears that it just got missed. ", VIDEO: Sgt. 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. Jeri, his son Matthew with his wife Adriana, and his daughter Jamie. Phillips plan, he said, was to have so much money he could spend $100 bills by the handful. Jeanette's story has never yet been fully told, but it has been explored by a collaborative project we are associated with and as such we are at liberty to disclose a little more than has ever been previously told. Before he left [in 1996], he said, I cant find [her]. In that case, Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. served less than four months in jail after striking case a plea bargain that cut a conspiracy and weapons case to a handful of misdemeanors. The two men sprayed bullets at police and other people before they were fatally shot in a battle that left 16 officers and civilians injured and stunned the nation with its live, televised pictures. 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. In fact at the time of the North Hollywood debacle he had been living fifty miles south of the crime scene in Orange County. Matasareanu's autopsy would be conducted over both days of that weekend. Celebrity. On February 28, 1997, at 9:15 AM, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips, Junior, walked into a Bank of America in Van Nuys, California, not far from the Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. studios. Emil (Mtsreanu) Pete (Mtsreanu) Gender Both male Birth Date September 20, 1970 (Phillips) July 19, 1966 (Mtsreanu) Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, U.S. (Phillips) Timioara, Romania (Mtsreanu) Date of Death February 28, 1997 (both; aged 27 and 30) Place of Death North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Job We will be back in late September/early October with a rewrite of Matasareanu's history and then we move forward into a large reshuffle/rewrite of the site. A somewhat period photograph of the final house of Phillips & Federico. 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. The shootout also left indelible marks on scores of cops and civilians, with many suffering depression, nightmares and flashbacks more typical of battle-scarred soldiers. asked a police radio dispatcher. In 1991, Phillips was arrested by Orange police after a mortgage broker reported discovering that deeds of trust he bought from Phillips were forged. It is to this house we shall return momentarily. Gomez also has a son, Steve, who was unable to attend because he is currently serving in the United States Navy. More than 300 outgunned law enforcement officers from five agencies, fighting for their lives, fired back with more than 550 rounds. The most obvious example is the 'armor piercing ammunition' myth which originated from Sgt. West Harriet was the address he had shared with his mother in the early 1990's, it was now devoid of all connection to the Phillips family. It is curious to note that we have found no official communiqu naming Phillips and Matasareanu as the perpetrators; the media seem to be the first people to use their names, and the LAPD followed suit some time later. When Matasareanu was 8, bullying by schoolmates caused him to turn to computers as a refuge, she said. The 26-year-old Phillips is believed to be the other. Despite Phillips record and the officers feeling that they were planning a robbery, both men got off lightly, serving less than four months. An engineer by training and a political dissident who had been jailed, he pushed the boy in school. When invited to join in the 'game', Matasareanu apparently hurried left the property with the laughter of the brothers chasing him to the gate. They were making off with cash when police arrived and the gunfight erupted. Some SWAT members had been working out at the LAPD academy and arrived in gym shorts and bulletproof vests. Yet within that reporting, and a lot of it was exceptional work, certain viewpoints and false information was allowed to exist. Finally the answer to those campaigns would be forthcoming. He had brain surgery. 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. But my son never said, Hey Pop, look at this, holding up his arm.. His known life of crime began with a 1989 petty theft of $400 in merchandise from the Alhambra Sears. So why the hike in the projected earnings, again we return to that question. 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). A property allegedly unknown to his mother who had said she had not spoken to her son in a couple of years, yet it is widely known she had a conversation with him in December 1996. It was the people angle that would complete and sell many inches of newspaper. 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. We only knew what happened when we saw it on the news.". Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, 30, was a scraggly haired, 283-pound native of Romania who suffered painful seizures after being struck in the head by a mental patient at his mother's home-operated day-care center. After dropping her daughter off at school she had returned home and started cleaning the house. Frequently fighting back tears, Phillips Sr., who said he is now unemployed and raising two young daughters alone in his cluttered apartment, painted a dreary picture of Phillips childhood. Larry Eugene Phillips Jr., 26, was a gruff-looking man with a pencil mustache, a former grifter once arrested for real-estate fraud. She said she hadn't spoken to her son since Christmas. Jeanette Federico, Larry's widow, had seen the shootout on the news. Twenty years later, the North Hollywood shootout is still vivid for those who suffered through it, and it has become part of the cultural lore of Los Angeles. Yet despite the files stacking up of possible crimes there was thing that nobody could find, was where Phillips had lived. Armed to the . Interestingly this vehicle was never seized under Federal Asset Forfeiture. Larry Eugene Phillips Sr., 48, who still lives in Denver, said in an interview with The Times on Sunday that Larry is the way he is because of my lifestyle. This final number shall also be addressed in the Myths page, for the media and the public jumped on this number and it has been incorrectly written into lore that he had been shot twenty nine times, and this just isn't the case. "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. Forty nine miles to the southeast back at the Pepperdale Drive address a second search was conducted and this time bore more troubling fruit. The children of slain North Hollywood bank robber Emil Matasareanu are willing to drop their civil rights lawsuit against the city and two police officers provided the officers are barred from. 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. Friday saw Phillips Sr interviewed in Denver. Denver Gestopo units terminate a man for no reason, then plant a gun to say he pointed a gun at them. Privacy Hard to fathom if it is true. Links: Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! For Matasareanu and Phillips, suspected of pulling off a number of sophisticated bank heists, the North Hollywood robbery was to be their biggest yet. His partner, Officer Dean Schram, saved his life by drawing returning fire. Nothing appeared to have moved in it for nearly a week. But things had begun to unravel by 1993. We are sure it must have been investigated but any official register of such an investigation is beyond our view at this time. Respect for privacy and personal property certainly went downhill in North Hollywood that day. Marital Status: Widowed He would say, Why dont you visualize yourself in that house? Emil is a nobody, and there is no content here anyway. 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. 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. 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.' If you wish to read more on this particular myth being dispelled then head over to that page. He was born under an alias, the brother said. Extra Notes: This case first aired on the April 11, 1997 episode. 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 . At the Los Angeles Police Museum in Highland Park, the robbers' stickup duds and guns are on display in what has proved to be its most popular exhibit. The case went to trial in 2000 and resulted in a hung jury. They were also believed to have robbed an armored car in June 1995; during that robbery, a guard was killed. 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. Clothes, a dresser, a number of unassembled weapon parts (believed to be the AR-15 upper receivers later displayed), and in the garage, a dark blue 1995 Buick Century. "Does any unit know how many officers are down?" LOS ANGELES, March 25 -- Los Angeles police say they are searching for a woman believed to be married to one of the bank robbers killed during a furious gunbattle with police last month in North. A chilling lust for riches and a resentment of societys rules propelled the leader of two armor-clad bank robbers who fought police to the death in the citys most spectacular shootout in a quarter of a century, the mans half brother said. But he never appeared for sentencing and remained a fugitive. West Harriet St and West Loma Alta Drive also in Altadena. She would later pose next to the bullet ridden passenger door of Sgt Haynes' cruiser. Phillips walked down Archwood Street, continuing his gunbattle with police. 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. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. A question developed amongst the media information of how to better protect law enforcement; the scale of Friday's event was without precedent. 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. The Argentine immigrant then sprinted to a nearby cleaners, where he pulled a woman to safety just as bullets shattered a window. Details: Jeanette Federico is the wife of serial bank robber Larry Phillips Jr.. "Our car started taking rounds. Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, 30, was a scraggly haired, 283-pound native of Romania who suffered painful seizures after being struck in the head by a mental patient at his mother's home-operated day-care center. Tim McBride. When the shell casings stopped rolling, two bandits lay dead - one after shooting himself after sustaining 10 gunshot wounds - and the other after bleeding to death from 29 gunshots after telling police, "F--- you. . 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. Results: Solved. Officers found two bedrooms, one apparently belonging to each man. Matasareanu and his wife and young son were living with Nicolescu and running a home-care service for the mentally disabled. But we all have families to go home to.". A week had passed since the robbery and abortive escape attempt. Reason unknown. Torossian points to the damage to the front of his house. One such tale recounted but unsubstantiated (and never likely to be substantiated either) speaks of Larry and Denis shooting each other whilst wearing body armour, a continuation of their childhood 'tests of manhood' that had been inflicted upon them by their grandfather and uncles. As the day wore on various entities gave interviews to the media, amongst them was Sgt Haynes whose black and white had been the first target for Phillips, and Judy Cook; the widow of Herman Cook who was executed by an unknown gunman back in 1995. "For eight months, I didn't sleep during the night.". 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. "Those were his words . Although the brother said Phillips had a difficult childhood, the son still looked up to his father, and, on coming of age, changed his name back to Phillips. Mortgage broker Larry Newfield said that when he told Phillips he was going to police, Phillips said, Ill kill you.. "Forgetting my wallet was the luckiest thing I ever did," said Lemus, 59, who still works at Mountain View Tire. Photographs published with permission of homeowner. You must fight on. 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'. Outside, LAPD Officer Bill Lantz was five days out of the police academy when he and his training officer cowered behind their cruiser in the intersection. Three of these were classified as fatal (the submental suicide shot and the subclavian arterial wound) or 'potentially fatal' (C-8 spinal nerve). It was. Makeup Department Production Management Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Art Department Sound Department Special Effects by Visual Effects by Stunts Camera and Electrical Department Casting Department Costume and Wardrobe Department Editorial Department Location Management Music Department Script and Continuity Department He didnt like society.. Eldstriden i North Hollywood var en vpnad konfrontation mellan tv bankrnare (Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. och Emil Dechebal Matasareanu) och LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) och SWAT-enheter den 28 februari 1997. Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu didn't stop as they slowly made their defiant way through city blocks, in a small white car, its hood open, heavy guns firing, as LAPD units fought back.. Postulation on whom he may have been searching for could go on forever, we happen to believe although it is not provable that it was for his half brother Denis Franks and Sharon Santos, the mother of his two sons. 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. He also refused to speculate on a possible source of their weapons, the identities of others they knew, or the whereabouts of an estimated $1.3 to $1.7 million they are believed to have taken in earlier Bank of America branch robberies in the San Fernando Valley on May 2 and May 31 last year. Even Matasareanus choice of a wife fell under Phillips influence, he said. His idols were the icons of white-collar crime--Michael Milken, Barry Minkow and the Godfather character of film and fiction. Wounded and bleeding, they sprinted toward the doorway of an upstairs dentist office, between a defunct Builders Emporium and Hughes Market, in what is now a Smart & Final and a Ralphs. 340 37 37 comments Best Add a Comment mafoo 10 yr. ago As previously mentioned it soon became apparent that the two 1996 takeovers in the southern end of the San Fernando Valley had been the work of these two, CCTV and modus operandi was a faultless match. A joint bank account held by both Valerie and Emil containing $13,000 would also be confiscated. Phillips Sr told the detectives that Jr had handed him a pre-paid pager, and had also given him his own pager number so that they may remain in contact. 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. Beretta 92F, det vapen som anvndes av Phillips. ", At another nearby shop, Miguel Lopez was installing a battery in the car of an off-duty police officer when the shooting started. He separated from the wife he had brought back from Romania, and she took their son with her. Walter Kennedy, Matasareanu's previous neighbour on Sinaloa Ave was interviewed by USA Today recounting the story of Matasareanu's graduation and how nobody had showed up. "The lesson is, very plainly: "Just because you're shot doesn't mean you're going to die. Over $1.5million was still missing, both women knew they would have to face the authorities soon enough, to disclose what they each knew of their husband's activities and what they knew of the missing volume of Bank of America's cash. According to the Coroner's report Phillips had nineteen firearms related wounds, inflicted by eleven separate gunshot strikes. A lot of times youll run across people and there will be something about their expression or body language that will really trip you that says, Watch out for this guy, Carson said. Without body armor or automatic weapons, the police are completely outgunned. "LAPD shined that day," said Lantz, who has had three knee surgeries. That would change dramatically as the autopsy progressed. He used his brains. His business was going sour. . Plink plink. Midway between Pasadena and Phillips rental home in Anaheim Hills, Matasareanu had rented a 2,700 sq ft home on Pepperdale Drive in Rowland Heights perched on the side of the San Puente hills. The large stellate wound under his chin from the suicide shot plainly visible to the room's occupants. "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. He recalled the detective saying of the AK-47 nightmare, "I served in Vietnam. ". Second, both LAPD and LAFD commissions confirm that an investigation into why Matasareanu did not receive timely aid had been opened on the behest of the LAPD Command. Were they washing stolen money through the business? Many aspects of the brothers assessment were echoed by Phillips father, Larry Eugene Phillips Sr., who spoke glowingly of his son in an interview with The Times on Sunday, calling him a criminal genius and the bravest man in the world, with a taste for the ostentatious and a hatred for police. Details of the North Hollywood shootout belong in that article. She may have dyed her hair blonde. Records indicate that Matasareanu had occasional income as a computer software consultant but that his primary source of income was Dechebal Inc., the board-and-care home his mother operated in a Pasadena building they jointly owned. 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. But he said, I promise Ill be in touch. , Reflecting on the horror of viewing the news footage of his sons violent end, Phillips Sr. said, I watch it and watch it, thinking its going to make me strong. Quite how they magically came up with this address is beyond our capability to dig out, and remains somewhat suspicious to us to this day. Why had they undertaken such a reckless course of action? Something goes wrong in the robbery attempt and . It was written by Smith, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Want to solve climate change? 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