Guard Arrested in Connection with Antelope Valley Bank's Armed Robbery

Guard Arrested in Connection with Antelope Valley Bank's Armed Robbery

Three Antelope Valley residents were arrested in connection with an armed robbery that took place earlier this year outside a Palmdale bank branch as a couple was picking up $200,000 in cash — a heist that a bank security guard allegedly helped organize, officials announced Wednesday. Jerry Wimbley Jr., 21, of Lancaster, Roman Isaiah Smith, 24, also of Lancaster, and Tyjana Grayes, 24, of Palmdale, were arrested on charges alleged in a seven-cou…

Security guard planned armed robbery outside Palmdale bank: ATF

Three people, including a bank security guard, were arrested for an armed robbery in front of a Chase bank in Palmdale, federal authorities said Wednesday. The crime took place in February after 24-year-old Tyjana Grayes, the security guard, learned that a couple would be picking up $200,000 in cash at the bank where she worked.  Grayes then recruited the two other suspects, Jerry Wimbley Jr. and Roman Isaiah Smith, to rob the couple as they wal…