“It just wasn’t a national event in a way. MOVIES: Notorious Norco bank robbery could hit big screen Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)he robbers weaved through the residential streets of Mira Loma, shooting from the bed of the truck and leaving several wounded deputies and disabled cruisers in their wake.
Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy James Evans was killed in the 1980 Norco bank robbery. Norco bank robbery site will soon be home to… Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) And he intends to retell it accurately.“People want the anti-hero now,” Cole said. The old bank building where the bank robbery took place 40 years ago was torn down last summer. Music instructor who gave semen-tainted flutes to students sentenced to 18 years in prison Felon accused of breaking into home, trying to sexually assault a Jurupa Valley senior
He has worked for five newspapers in four states: Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and California. Coronavirus tracker: California’s hospitalizations lowest in six weeks, 8,522 new cases and 187 new deaths reported as of Aug. 12 Adair Cole wrote the screenplay for “Norco,” a film that would recount the 1980 bank robbery in Norco. A former bank robber searches for his double crossing partner who left him for dead, while having to look after a 6 year Loves hiking, tennis, baseball, the beach, the Lakers and golden retrievers. Ambushed and outgunned, Evans was shot and killed.The robbers fled into the wilderness as roughly 200 officers searched. A shootout often, but not necessarily, pits law enforcement against criminal elements; it could also involve two groups outside of law enforcement, such as rival gangs. Weeds also poke through cracks in an aging blacktop that was the bank parking lot.The bank sign along Hamner Avenue still stands, though it reads, “Paragon Building Products,” for a more recent tenant.But there are signs that, soon, there will be something else to look at — something to call to mind the historic event.Less certain is whether the 1980 robbery will one day Kevin McNeil, a real estate representative for owner Richard Goodman, said the bank property is going to be redeveloped into a 7-Eleven. Directed by Henry Hathaway. “The last thing we want is a memorial that no one ever sees.”Bash said it is important to commemorate the robbery because it took the life of a sheriff’s deputy.“James Evans’ wife told me that that morning he told her that he had a bad feeling,” Bash said, and might not come home.“And, sure enough, he didn’t come home,” Bash said.The events of that day are important to remember, he said, because the robbery launched sweeping changes in the way police train for pursuits, arm themselves and communicate.Bash said his brother, for example, now a retired deputy sheriff from Los Angeles County, heard lessons from the Norco bank robbery in the academy.Police responding to the bank robbery “were totally outgunned,” he said. Ducking beneath the dashboard, he put his cruiser in reverse and backed into the street for a shootout.“I thought, ‘This isn’t real,’” Bolasky said, according to an article on the Riverside Sheriffs’ Association website.It’s the type of story that Adair Cole, a Hollywood screenwriter and Norco High School graduate, never expected to find in his quaint hometown. Inland Empire educators split on online versus in-person classes as Trump issues threat Black Riverside County social worker alleges American Airlines detained her on suspicion of kidnapping white toddler One suspect was killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team early May 11. The old bank building where the bank robbery took place 40 years ago this month was torn down last summer. Deputy Glyn Bolasky, who arrived just as the bad guys were leaving the bank, was shot and injured almost immediately. Black Riverside County social worker alleges American Airlines detained her on suspicion of kidnapping white toddler
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Even today, 40 years later, many of the men involved in the Norco shootout break down and cry when recounting it. Some of the weapons recovered from those who robbed Security Pacific Bank in Norco in 1980.