Sun Valley bank employees recount terrifying encounter with 71-year-old robber

Tellers and security guards recounted the terrifying moments an apparent robber — who police later identified as a 71-year-old man who served four decades behind bars for previous bank robberies — stormed into two San Fernando Valley banks late last year, threatening them with violence if they didn’t comply with his demands, they said in a hearing inside the Van Nuys criminal courthouse on Tuesday, April 23.

After wrapping up a morning meeting with her employees, Nancy Esqueda was walking...