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Two robbers, clad head to toe in Level 3-A body armour, wearing coats, ski-masks and gloves, robbing a bank while armed with a mix of Heckler & Koch 7.62 x 51 mm and Chinese AK-47 variant assault rifles, fit into that unlikely category. Yet that is exactly what police officers responding to an alarm at the Bank of America in Hollywood, California, faced on 28 February 1997.
Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu decided to make an illegal withdrawal. With stop watches sewn into their gloves, they worked together like a well-oiled machine, only targeting banks
