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Oct 7, 2009 11:08 am US/Central
DPD: Robbery Suspect Admits To Guard Shooting
Reporting
Jack Fink
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Picture from September 18, 2009 Chase Bank shooting that left an armored truck guard dead.
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Dallas Police say one of the men arrested for a Balch Springs bank robbery on Saturday has confessed to the deadly shooting of an armored car guard at another bank last month.
25-year-old Enrique Lopez is now charged with the guard's murder. His alleged partner, Jesus Sandoval, is also behind bars. He has not been charged with murder, but is facing other charges related to the bank robberies.
Dallas homicide detective Lt. Craig Miller says Lopez admitted shooting armored car guard Crescencio Borquez during a robbery attempt at a Dallas Chase Bank branch last month. Borquez was shot as he was loading an ATM with cash outside the bank, in Oak Cliff.
Lopez and Sandoval were arrested Saturday for a bank robbery in Balch Springs. They are accused of threatening to detonate a bomb when they held up the Chase Bank on Lake June Road. They were captured a short time later after being accused of stealing nearly $20,000.
Police then started to connect that crime to the one in which Borquez was killed, on September 18. And detectives say they may be responsible for other bank robberies as well.
According to sources, the first link between the two crimes is that at least one of the Balch Springs robbery suspects matches the description of the suspect in the September 18 armored car guard shooting that left 46-year-old Borquez dead.
The Dallas Police Department has previously stated that they believe the gunman in the guard shooting is the same as the suspect seen waving a gun in surveillance video from a June 13 bank robbery.
Police have also said they believe the gunman is the same suspect seen in a surveillance photo from a bank robbery at a Wachovia Bank in southwest Dallas on August 1.
Sources said that the second link between the crimes is the described getaway vehicle. A white mid-sized vehicle is said to have been involved in Saturday's robbery, the deadly guard shooting and the August 1 bank robbery.
Cedric Davis said that he saw two suspects in their vehicle Saturday. "When I was coming back to the bank," he said, "I did see two Hispanic suspects driving a mid-size, white, four-door vehicle, speeding out of the entrance to the parking lot."
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