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The Los Angeles Police Department in a Thursday press conference announced the arrest by Pasadena police of a suspect in a series of residential burglaries and assaults in Los Angeles that includes attempted rape, said Lt. Vasken Gourdikian of the Pasadena Police Department.
The suspect had been dubbed “The Virgin Mary Bandit” because of the design of a T-shirt he was seen wearing in a surveillance video.
When they arrived, Pasadena officers saw a man who fled from them, hopping over fences.The LA attacks began on August 1, with four attacks on the same day.
On Tuesday, LAPD announced a $35,000 reward at their news conference for information leading to the identity, arrest, and conviction of a suspect.
A lead from the public provided LAPD with a name to run in a database search. It was at that time, they discovered that the name matched a man already in custody following the Pasadena arrest.
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